Geopolitics
The Mecca Compact: The Global South's Damning Verdict on a Failed Western Order
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a trilateral collective-defense pact aimed at providing a mutual security guarantee and hedging against perceived Western unreliability. This represents a historic and necessary realignment in the Global South, where nations are finally asserting strategic autonomy against a crumbling, self-serving Western security order that has long treated them as protectorates.
