Good point about Turkey’s interest in BTC. But, given their lack of interest in helping us, would that move them enough to support, say, a deployment of F-15s to Incirlik to send a message (or F-22s, but that would be a threat, rather than a message)?

It’s amazing how opaque this war is. Compare this to OIF, where, if you were paying attention (and ignoring a lot of the press blather), you could guess fairly accurately where everybody was on a day-to-day basis.

It seems like the big unknown is Russia’s strategic goals. Are they limited, or are they going for the whole thing? Either way, there will be significant repercussions if we are seen as doing nothing… expect a half dozen nations to Finlandize if we can’t find a way of responding without actually killing Russians.