Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia Eye Joint Defence Budget After Trilateral Pact
🤝 ALIGNMENT — Three US-adjacent powers moving toward a single defence budget. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Pakistan brokered April's ceasefire; Saudi Arabia is Washington's Gulf anchor; Turkey holds NATO's eastern flank. A joint budget creates military coordination outside US architecture. For Riyadh: insurance if Hormuz talks collapse. For Islamabad and Ankara: leverage. Washington's bilateral grip on Gulf escalation weakens when these three move as one.
