Washington is arming Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel and Turkey at once, with no plan to manage their rivalries or prevent a regional arms race.
Sunday, November 8, 2026
Washington is arming Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel and Turkey at once, with no plan to manage their rivalries or prevent a regional arms race.
Saudi F-35 ambitions and Turkey’s KAAN engine deal test Israel’s qualitative edge and reshape U.S. arms export politics.
Turkey’s NATO summit hosting masks a dangerous agenda of strategic freelancing, maritime coercion, and democratic backsliding that the alliance must confront directly.