Wade, Turkey is backing Russia. So we will have no help there.

Speculation is, Russia has offered Arms and other elements to Turkey to gain their cooperation, and the Islamists who run Ankara despise the West certainly. This is not Kemal Ataturk’s Turkey, rather it is Osama bin Laden’s. The Saudis have funneled a lot of money to the religious party, which in turn has infiltrated and Islamicized the military.

Turkey has a lot more people than Greece, to give one example, and would like to rule it (again). The people there would like to rule a great deal of the Balkans. Other nations in the area are just as weak, and Russia would like that play (swoop in as protector against Turkey).