Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan formalized a NATO-style mutual-defense clause on August 7, building a parallel security architecture that does not run through Washington. The Makkah agreement extends that logic to Turkey as well. That deployment was formalized under the bilateral pact; the Makkah agreement upgrades it to a trilateral commitment. The US guarantees Saudi security; Saudi Arabia prices oil in dollars and recycles petrodollar surpluses through US Treasuries. TFTC has previously covered the petrodollar's structural pressures in depth; the Makkah agreement adds a hard geopolitical datapoint to what had been a slower-moving financial drift.