KIMBERLY MARTEN:

They do. They have a huge amount of natural gas that they are importing from Russia. There was supposed to be a new pipeline that was going to go into effect to allow Russia to bypass Ukraine in its gas exports to Europe that now seems like it's on the rocks. Although, people realize that wasn't very profitable anyway, and so, that may have been an excuse to get around it.

It also seems like they might lose grain imports from Russia and Ukraine is stepping in saying, "Hey, Turkey, if you need grain, we're here. We'll help you." It actually could cement further trade relations between Ukraine and Turkey, and Turkey and its European partners.

And, you know, what Putin seems to be doing over and over again is just driving more and more opponents to have common interests against what he's doing.