Pakistan has become a hot spot in the Middle East, and Kuwait has also become savvy, turning into the "second Saudi Arabia." On July 28, Kuwait officially approved a defense cooperation agreement with Pakistan, valid for five years with automatic renewal. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration between the armed forces of both countries, focusing on military training, education, intelligence sharing, logistics, defense technology, research, and exchange of expertise. The two nations will also establish a joint military committee responsible for overseeing the implementation of the agreement and organizing military exercises.
This makes Kuwait the second Gulf state, after Saudi Arabia, to engage in deep military and defense cooperation with Pakistan. It also reflects Kuwait's strategic shift—learning from past experiences and abandoning its previous reliance on the U.S. military as its sole security guarantor. Previously, Saudi Arabia had also reached a defense cooperation agreement with Pakistan based on "mutual defense," and Pakistan even deployed an air force and air defense unit to Saudi territory.
In fact, the results are already evident: during the Second Iran-U.S. War, Iran only launched a few attacks on U.S. military bases within Saudi Arabia in the final days. Iranian forces did not touch any domestic infrastructure inside Saudi Arabia. In contrast, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE suffered more severely. This is largely because these three countries have been too deeply involved in and dependent on U.S. military cooperation, making it impossible for them to prevent the U.S. from directly using their territories and airspace to launch attacks against Iran. Now that Kuwait has taken this first step, once Pakistan’s military capabilities are fully in place, it will be able to begin constraining U.S. actions—and saying "no" to America.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1872007267039232/
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