🇺🇸 Across the world, the times they are a-changin’... The U.S.-led security order is shrinking, and smaller powers are filling the gap with regional defense pacts: 🇦🇺🇫🇯🇵🇬 Australia has locked in mutual defense treaties with Fiji and Papua New Guinea that could widen into a Pacific alliance. 🇹🇲🇵🇰🇸🇦 Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have stood up the Mecca Defense Alliance with an Article 5-style pledge. 🇪🇺🇨🇦 Europe is trying to Europeanize NATO rather than replace it. The EU is also partnering with Canada. The drivers are the same in each theater: more assertive neighbors and less certainty that Washington will always show up first. The United States is not withdrawing, but its power and influence are definitely diminishing. It's role is becoming just one pillar, among several. Source: TLDR News Global (YT) / Writer: Jamie