All right, Alexander, let's talk about the defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

This is a big story that is not getting too much attention.

Obviously, there's a lot of stuff in the news.

Over the past week, there's been a lot of stuff in the news flow.

But this is a big deal, at least in geopolitics.

What's going on here?

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Well, the first thing to say is that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have been very friendly

with each other for basically ever since Pakistan emerged as an independent country

in 1947.

So, you know, they've always been friends.

And it's always been fairly well known that they had close contacts, military and security contacts. I mean, I can remember back in the 1980s, for example,

when Pakistan was supporting the insurgency against the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan.

The Saudis were absolutely there. They were heavily involved. They were providing the

Pakistanis with financial and military help to enable them to do that. And at roughly the same

time, and this is widely known, the Saudis were also providing funding for Pakistan's ultimately

successful nuclear weapons development program, the one that was

led by A.Q. Khan, I mean, this has never been formally admitted, but it is a universally

acknowledged fact. So it's also long been rumored that as one of the conditions that the Saudis gave for all

that funding for the Pakistani nuclear program, the Saudi said, look, if we ever need nuclear

weapons in a hurry, we have helped you to get to that point where you've

been able to develop them. You must help us. You must loan or even give warheads. We already

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