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Why Egypt Didn’t Sign the Mecca Defence Pact

September 18, 2026 by Walter Guevara

Venn diagram showing Egypt positioned at the overlap of IMF financing, Gulf investment, and the Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan defence pact rather than inside any single bloc.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact on August 7. Egypt’s decision not to join looks like the Ideology Premium’s alignment-menu logic playing out in security policy.