While all three are members of NATO, all also know they would be the first one hit by any Russian counter attacks. Remember the Ukraine is NOT a member of NATO, thus neither Poland, Turkey or Romania have any TREATY obligations to support US actions in the Ukraine.
Worse, such an attack would amount to abandonment of US Troops in Afghanistan, Right now the FUEL for US Troops in Afghanistan is from Russia. The big question is would Pakistan permit fuel to Afghanistan (and that is up to Saudi Arabia, who paying for that fuel). The House of Saud do not like the Russians, but they fear another Arab Spring, and they know the driving force behind the last Arab Spring was the Russian Drought the year before that shut down of Russian Grain exports. That shut down of grain exports let the price of grain to go through the roof, and the next thing you knew the poor were in open revolt. This is the same pattern as the French Revolution, i.e. increase in the price of grain, the poor can not pay it, the poor when the price comes down and they feel more secure, the poor revolts.
Thus the House of Saud do NOT want Russian to cut off its grain exports, thus the House of Saud will do all it can to prevent a war with Russia.
Now, Turkey has interests in the Crimea, for the Crimean are a Turkish group, like the Turkmen of Turkmenistan, and various other Turkish people from Kazakhstan to Turkey (a major difference is the Turks of Turkey have a huge, un-admitted Greek background, the Ottoman Empire till the 1600s was as much Greek as it was Turkish, this lead to intermarrying between Greeks and Turks from the 1200s till the 1600s when a "reform" movement with is Turkish Islam stop the intermingling and later lead to the Greeks in the 1800s fighting for their independence. Yes, the main problems between the Greeks and Turks to this day is they in-laws to each other).
Now, since the 1800s, Turkey has down played Islam and played up being Turks. This lead to increase involvement with the Turks of Crimea and Turkmenistan. Thus the Turks have an interest and probably involvement with the Crimea Tartars. On the other hand, the main source of energy for Turkey (and Greece) is Iran. Iran supports Russia, for Russia has supported them over the last 10 years or so. Turkey thus would NOT do anything overt to oppose what Russia does, for fear of its energy supplies, that includes giving the OK for US Carriers to go through Borphus and Dardanelles (By treaty Carriers and Battleships can NOT go through those Straits, but Cruisers and Destroyers can, thus the Soviet Union always gave its Carriers anti-submarine capacity so they could call them Anti-submarine Cruisers and thus were permitted through the Straits).
Thus the US can send in Cruisers and Destroyers into the Black Seas (today, not much difference between the two, except in many names).
Sorry, McCain or Romney would be told the same thing Obama was told by the Admirals and Generals of the Pentagon, there is not much we can do from a military point of view in that part of the world.
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