Next-gen Middle East: 5 regional powers
Weichert predicts a post-American Middle East will be defined by 5 powers: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey.
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The Post-American Middle East: Five New Powers and Israel's Isolation
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Weichert lays out the geopolitical architecture taking shape after the war. The Abraham Accords, once a genuine framework for Arab-Israeli normalization, are effectively dead. The new order will be defined by five powers: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (with its nuclear umbrella), Egypt (the largest economy in Africa with possibly the strongest conventional military in the Muslim world), and Turkey (with its impressive indigenous defense industrial base, as evidenced by the Kaan fighter jet). Weichert cites former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus's admission that Israel couldn't build an F-35 independently — while Turkey can. These five powers will form a new post-American axis, and Israel's position is the mirror image of what Iran's was before the war: isolated, pressured on all sides, with its only powerful ally now openly frustrated with it. Tucker and Weichert are both struck by the symmetry — all of Israel's ambitions have whipped around and become their opposites.
Post-American Middle East: 5 New Powers
The Abraham Accords are dead. In their place, five regional powers will define the new Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey. The US-Israel axis that once anchored the region has been replaced by a bloc hostile or indifferent to Israel — and the transition has already begun.
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