In Jeddah, three of the Muslim world's most consequential powers—Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan—are formalizing a security partnership that reflects how profoundly the Middle East's strategic order is being redrawn. The convergence of a NATO member, the Gulf's dominant military spender, and the world's only nuclear-armed Muslim-majority state is not merely a diplomatic ceremony but a response to the vulnerabilities exposed by sustained US-Israeli operations against Iran and the fragility of global energy corridors. History rarely announces its turning points loudly; sometimes they arrive a