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Anyway this alliance should create economic initiatives and incentives (economic growth and connectivity is the main driver behind nation states and their relationship/interests) first (like other successful or partially successful organizations - EU for example). That naturally limits hostility and encourages healthy competition.
The problem with this alliance as I see it is that there is a large economic disparity between KSA/Turkiye on one hand and Pakistan on the other.
Some kind of shared agenda/motivation needs to occur for this alliance to not end up like the countless of other Muslim alliances in modern history that sounded good on paper but amounted to little in practice.
I would start with economic interconnectivity (mutually beneficial) and work towards industrial/scientific/resource/mineral/renewable/energy cooperation and simultaneously the military angle.
If a success expand with other nations who are willing to contribute and who share the same overall visions and agendas of the region.
Each state x or y will always have their strengths and weaknesses but some kind of overall agenda/goal should be made clear.
One simple thing could be that each of the 3 nations (governments) are against states within the state (proxies) who are undermining nation state x or y. Pakistan faces several internal insurgencies so that should be easy to agree on. Turkiye had a decade old problem with the Kurds (militant) and a political problem in terms of certain Kurdish (nationalist) demands.
KSA is against proxies/non-state actors in next door Arab countries (Yemen, Iraq, Sudan etc.) for obvious reasons.
So there is a commonality there.
I don't think that sect (as some trolls claim) plays any role whatsoever in this alliance.
If anything, this alliance (if it is against anybody) is mostly aimed at Israel and by extension the US/West because they are the only ones (within the Muslim world at least) that can challenge this alliance if successful in the region. Not including China here as they have good/close ties with all 3.
Iran nowadays (current regime) is a failed state by all accounts and mostly an annoyance rather than some imaginary existential threat. Nobody is interested in some permanent war or large-scale war with them - just sane/relatively normal relations (neighborly) as pre-1979. Could/should be possible down the road.
But even if it is not aimed at anybody in specific (likely the case) it is good that leaderships understands that the region needs to unite in some form or another to counter mutual challenges.
It is also pretty self-evident that regions develop whenever there is peace and stability and some kind of cooperation and connectivity whether political, economic (mostly the case and driver nowadays as I wrote) so any step towards that is a positive step.
I don't think predicting x or y makes much sense either as the world is constantly changing (the changes that KSA has underwent in the past 10 years are gigantic in almost every field and no sane local would have believed even 10% of it 10 years ago) but the jury is out and it will be out for many years to come. So let us see and hope for the best.
The problem with this alliance as I see it is that there is a large economic disparity between KSA/Turkiye on one hand and Pakistan on the other.
Some kind of shared agenda/motivation needs to occur for this alliance to not end up like the countless of other Muslim alliances in modern history that sounded good on paper but amounted to little in practice.
I would start with economic interconnectivity (mutually beneficial) and work towards industrial/scientific/resource/mineral/renewable/energy cooperation and simultaneously the military angle.
If a success expand with other nations who are willing to contribute and who share the same overall visions and agendas of the region.
Each state x or y will always have their strengths and weaknesses but some kind of overall agenda/goal should be made clear.
One simple thing could be that each of the 3 nations (governments) are against states within the state (proxies) who are undermining nation state x or y. Pakistan faces several internal insurgencies so that should be easy to agree on. Turkiye had a decade old problem with the Kurds (militant) and a political problem in terms of certain Kurdish (nationalist) demands.
KSA is against proxies/non-state actors in next door Arab countries (Yemen, Iraq, Sudan etc.) for obvious reasons.
So there is a commonality there.
I don't think that sect (as some trolls claim) plays any role whatsoever in this alliance.
If anything, this alliance (if it is against anybody) is mostly aimed at Israel and by extension the US/West because they are the only ones (within the Muslim world at least) that can challenge this alliance if successful in the region. Not including China here as they have good/close ties with all 3.
Iran nowadays (current regime) is a failed state by all accounts and mostly an annoyance rather than some imaginary existential threat. Nobody is interested in some permanent war or large-scale war with them - just sane/relatively normal relations (neighborly) as pre-1979. Could/should be possible down the road.
But even if it is not aimed at anybody in specific (likely the case) it is good that leaderships understands that the region needs to unite in some form or another to counter mutual challenges.
It is also pretty self-evident that regions develop whenever there is peace and stability and some kind of cooperation and connectivity whether political, economic (mostly the case and driver nowadays as I wrote) so any step towards that is a positive step.
I don't think predicting x or y makes much sense either as the world is constantly changing (the changes that KSA has underwent in the past 10 years are gigantic in almost every field and no sane local would have believed even 10% of it 10 years ago) but the jury is out and it will be out for many years to come. So let us see and hope for the best.
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