Saudi Arabia Actives the Mecca Alliance: What Next?

This video covers how a renewed Saudi-Yemeni government offensive against the Houthis has pushed Turkey and Pakistan to invoke the Mecca Alliance, a NATO-style mutual defence pact with Saudi Arabia, by deploying troops as a deterrent. It traces an earlier brief flirtation with activating the alliance after a reported Saudi request for Pakistani airstrikes, which Turkish and Pakistani officials initially walked back, and situates the current fighting within Yemen's civil war between the Iran-linked Houthis and the Saudi-backed government. The video warns that these overlapping regional alliances create a row of geopolitical dominoes that could let the conflict escalate quickly and potentially draw in Iran directly. It closes with a sponsored segment for the conservation group Planet Wild.

• [05:09] Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces announced a new offensive aiming to retake the entire country and remove the Houthis entirely, starting with an advance from the south toward Mokka.
• [04:06] The Mecca Alliance is a mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey modeled on NATO's Article 5, where an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all three.
• [04:50] Days earlier, Turkish and Pakistani officials had distanced themselves from invoking the Mecca Alliance, saying it didn't apply to existing conflicts and hadn't been ratified by either country's parliament.
• [03:47] A renewed Houthi offensive let them take the government-controlled pocket in southwest Yemen and encircle Taiz, one of the few population centers still held by Yemeni government forces.