America’s Fraying Ties Are Forging New Alliances
As the US isolates itself, countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are creating makeshift security arrangements. Nobody will feel better off — including Washington.
A Saudi Arabian ship takes part in a multinational naval exercise in the Arabian Sea near Pakistan's port city of Karachi in February.
Photographer: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images
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