Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to Sign Trilateral Mutual Defense Pact
🤝 AXIS — Three very different US allies just chose each other instead. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A mutual defense clause linking a nuclear power, a NATO member, and the Gulf's top oil producer creates deterrence Tehran must price in. Pakistan brings the bomb; Turkey NATO corridors; Riyadh cash. An Aramco strike now potentially triggers Islamabad. Variable: whether Washington reads this as burden-sharing or a rival command structure.
