Turkey has just made a military alliance with Saudi Arabia. This is the further rise of Turkey’s own NATO, alongside its deepening of ties with Central Asian Turkic states and Iran. Turkey is getting more powerful as it fills in the vacuum left by the United States and Iran is also getting more powerful as it weaponizes the Strait of Hormuz. The stewardship of the Middle East is returning to its historically most powerful nations: Iran and Turkey. Israel will have to face a Turko-Iranian axis, and the US — fatigued by foreign policy — will not be there to defend it: