{"id":85550,"date":"2026-08-18T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85550"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:26:01","slug":"new-power-axis-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/new-power-axis-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"New Power Axis In The Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Fox News:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1200\/675\/Mecca-Pact-2026.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (R) sign a trilateral joint defense agreement in Mecca\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">A new defense pact linking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_world_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Turkey and Pakistan is fueling debate over whether the three countries are laying the groundwork for a competing regional bloc \u2014 potentially challenging the U.S.-backed architecture built around Israel and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-calls-arab-nations-sign-abraham-accords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_world_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">the Abraham Accords<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 or simply creating a new model of burden-sharing among American partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">The three countries, all with longstanding security ties to the United States, enter the pact with different interests \u2014 but together they could begin shifting the region\u2019s balance of power. Saudi Crown Prince\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/mohammed-bin-salman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_world_article_main-content_article-body_6_4\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a>, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on Aug. 7. A joint statement said the pact was intended to &#8220;strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression&#8221; and stipulated that an armed attack against one country would be regarded as an attack against all three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: A new defense pact linking\u00a0Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan is fueling debate over whether the three countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85551,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85550\/revisions\/85551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}