S8 Ep346: SEGMENT 14: EMERGING SUNNI OR ISLAMIC NATO IN ASIA Guest: Gregory Copley Copley explores the potential formation of a new security alliance among Sunni Muslim nations in Asia. Discussion covers the strategic drivers behind such a coalition, which countrie
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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SEGMENT 14: EMERGING SUNNI OR ISLAMIC NATO IN ASIA Guest: Gregory Copley Copley explores the potential formation of a new security alliance among Sunni Muslim nations in Asia. Discussion covers the strategic drivers behind such a coalition, which countries might participate, how this Islamic NATO could reshape regional power dynamics, and implications for Western alliances and Middle Eastern stability.
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| 0:58.3 | I'm John Batchew with Gregory Copley. In these last days, I've learned there's such a thing as a Sunni-NATO, |
| 1:05.8 | and it's a trilateral agreement not yet signed between Pakistan and nuclear power, Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:13.5 | certainly an oil power, and the UAE, certainly an oil power. And there are other Islamic states looking to participate in some time in the future. Is that credible as an organizational body that would |
| 1:20.8 | provide security and aid to each other? Is that the future? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, it may be part of the future, and yes, it's a very viable relationship between the UAE, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, because they do have a lot in common, |
| 1:42.7 | including the geographic territory they need to protect against others. |
| 1:47.6 | The question is, who are they protecting against? |
| 1:49.9 | Why are you forming this security alliance? |
| 1:53.1 | What's the threat? |
| 1:54.8 | What's the adversary? |
| 1:56.0 | The threat and adversaries could be Turkey. |
| 1:59.5 | It could be Iran, also both the Islamic statesaries could be Turkey, it could be Iran, also both Islamic states, could be Russia, |
| 2:05.8 | although that's not expressed any threat in recent years, could it be India, could it be the |
| 2:13.1 | United States, could it be Israel, all of those are probably not in themselves great threats to this |
| 2:23.1 | new Sunni NATO, as you call it. We have to bear in mind that is this going forward or is it |
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