The whole "how rich are the Saudi family" reminds me of an old joke... A prince of the house of Saud starts at the University in Berlin. After two weeks his father calls him, and asks how he is doing and is he making friends. The prince answers him "My studies are going well, and I am making friends. However, I am a bit different than my friends since I drive my Ferrari to school and most of them take the train." His father, without a seconds pause tells him "I shall transfer 10 million dollars to your bank account immediately. Tomorrow, you are to go out and buy a train!"

@thearpox7873

3 ай бұрын

Imagine being so stingy that you don't buy everyone a ferrari.

@yusefwebb9727

3 ай бұрын

​@@thearpox7873I know right talk about being cheap.

@thegreatest9282

3 ай бұрын

Idk if it is a translation error but it says they are so delusional that he thought everyone one of his friends had their own train

@ForageGardener

3 ай бұрын

​@@thearpox7873you are missing the joke. The Saudi father was thinking the other children OWNED the trains and that he was just catching his child up with them. 😂

@ForageGardener

3 ай бұрын

​@@thegreatest9282it's not a translation error it's just poor reading comprehension on the part of the respondent

Please do an entire video on the House of Saud. I did a Wikipedia search on the list of Saudi Kings, and that article read like a George R.R. Martin novel.

@djcokeisnotreal9810

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like these guys could rule the entire world if they wanted to with how large and wealthy they are, hell they most likely do in a way with how much oil they sell to the world.

@djcokeisnotreal9810

3 ай бұрын

@@CM-4929 true, I just imagine their entire family is like that of the children of medieval kings trying to carve out their own pieces of land after their dad dies. It's probably the same with their wealth but less killings(or maybe more, I don't know how their family dynamics work).

@SerfinBird

3 ай бұрын

​@CM-4929 a lot of that oil money is also in investments. Remember the crown prince was a key part of Musk buying twitter because he owned a large chunk of it.

@badfoody

3 ай бұрын

he probably was inspired by it haha other than UK history

@rustomkanishka

3 ай бұрын

Where wealth accumulates, men decay. I guess for the Saudi Princes money is counted like Beans. You don't count individual beans, you measure them by the cup. When you're used to seeing the whole world bend over backwards for you, and controlled by beans, human relationships must be hard to figure.

I used to fix electronic devices. I had a client ask me to fix Facetime on his iPad. but he was from Saudi Arabia and that's where he got the iPad. Apple devices from Saudi Arabia are physically incapable of using Facetime. He didn't seem to accept this and finally I said "Listen, If I had the kind of pull with the House of Saud I'd get that changed." You would have thought I'd summoned the devil from the look of fear on his face.

@Zz1BLAKC1Zz

3 ай бұрын

You definitely can use Facetime in Saudi since my mom just called me yesterday on facetime, lol. Maybe it was the case years ago, but it's definitely not true for today.

@greg.kasarik

3 ай бұрын

I once had a conversation with a Saudi philosophy professor, who was complaining that more Saudis weren't interested in philosophy. He did not like it when I pointed out that if he wanted his country to encourage philosophy, all he needed to do was fix their problem with beating, torturing and murdering people who disagreed with either Islam, or the House of Saud. Turns out that he couldn't understand that the whole point to philosophy, is to question the status quo, and figure out why this world is so fucked up. Sadly, he was part of the problem, not part of the solution. Saudi Arabia is one of those countries that I can't go to, or I'll be killed, the moment I start discussing spirituality. They really are quite petty like that.

@kvoltti

3 ай бұрын

@Zz1BLAKC1Zz that device was not bought in Saudi Arabia if it was it purchased in another country and bootlegged into Saudi Arabia.

@funveeable

3 ай бұрын

The Middle East will run out of oil the day America stops buying from it. America will make its own oil, then outcompete them. They will go out of business, the experienced oil drillers and workers will leave the country, and if America pulls a Biden and goes back to buying Arab oil, it will be desolate like Venezuela.

@oFaisalo

3 ай бұрын

I’m sorry what ? 😂 iPad ?

As a Norwegian I am grateful the wealth was shared and invested instead of hoarded by the elite and wasted

@EM-tx3ly

2 ай бұрын

Norwegian mindset is different than Saudi Arabian one Genetics Culture History Geography These four factors shape nations

@metrodonkey8093

Ай бұрын

Norway does it right

@brianjonker510

27 күн бұрын

@@EM-tx3ly And more than all of that is the historical influence of Lutheranism compared to Islam.

@fuzzyhair321

8 күн бұрын

​@@EM-tx3lybra, it took centuries for Norway to get this way. Remember what else Norwegians are famous for? Blood damn Vikings bugger off with that generalisation

The Line, so people understand, is an architectural apocalypse of a bad idea. It's baffling where to begin; it's like talking down a child's drawing of an amusement park.

@23tovarm5

3 ай бұрын

Just for curiosity sake, “how” bad can it possibly be?

@clan741

3 ай бұрын

@@23tovarm5if your work place takes place on the other side of the line, it’d take you hours to reach it. Having a narrow city is horrible for commute.

@sunnuntaiselori1927

3 ай бұрын

The line is supposed to be 170km long, 200m wide and 500m tall made out of 2 gigantic buildings. It's more like a shopping mall than a city. Oh and it's supposed to house 9 million people. That's something like Chicago metropolitan area worth of people. It's a fever dream straight out of sci-fi.

@wastedpotentiel

3 ай бұрын

It's just another sad attempt at imitating Dubai. Saudi Arabi knows the oil is going to run out and is using tech startup techniques to try and stay relevant. Make a big flashy product and hope you can spend your way to success.

@TheMadOneofSB

3 ай бұрын

Terra's first hab-block!@@sunnuntaiselori1927

Well its just not that they're running out of oil. Its that their oil is getting more "sour" and their infrastructure isn't built for it. So Saudi crude and a bunch of the crude in the middle east is light sweet crude, which makes it super easy to refine/process, and the facilities that can be built relatively cheaply because the infrastructure/pipes don't need to be built to a spec for hazardous additives. While elsewhere in the world, there's an additive in a lot of oil and gas called H2S that's a byproduct of bacterial breakdowns of plant and animal material in an anaerobic environment, making it "sour". And it loves to eat/corrode basic piping as H2S loves to make rust. It takes a bit to remove from petroleum products, but as a result it takes a lot more money and processing to take crude to that sweet light level. As well the piping to move it has to be a lot thicker, a higher grade of steel, and periodically monitored so that if a spot starts failing it can be swapped out. Plus valves, seals, and equipment need to be of the same spec to handle it. One of the ways that the Saudi oil is getting more "sour" is that an easy way to keep production up on oil wells is to pump water into the well, let it push the oil to the top and add pressure to the formation by taking up that void of space of pumping oil out. But if the water isn't clean and basically distilled, it can introduce outside things into the formation, like bacteria and particulates, which get broken down....into H2S. As a result, over the years of adding water to wells, the infrastructure is starting to corrode that was never built (or needed to) a much harsher environment, there are more replacements and new equipment to handle to H2S, and the cost per barrel is going up. Not only are they running out of oil, their existing production is getting that much more expensive to run.

@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe

3 ай бұрын

This comment needs to be higher up. Do they have shale oil like the US does or is it just what they’ve been pumping out?

@jonevansauthor

3 ай бұрын

No, it's definitely a finite resource, we're definitely running out, and we definitely haven't need to burn it for decades. How long before their supply is not worth extracting is a reasonable question. Any idea that they won't run out is just not how maths works.

@Sochsun

3 ай бұрын

​@@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe Their oil is in a much more standard and drilling friendly formations, so they basically just need to geolocate (test drill and geological analysis) and drill down. No weird rock types, not that deep, not really any weird high pressure areas, and not a lot of natural gas as well, so there's not a lot of secondary processing and dealing with that product like there is in North America and Northern Europe

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia might be backwards in some ways, but they are very smart and educated in others. Such as how they treat women. We need to treat them more like 2016 Saudi Arabia everywhere.

@adamrussell9389

3 ай бұрын

I believe the US refineries are set up to process sour crude when we were importing oil in significant amounts. It can pose a problem when the oil that is being processed is sweet. I believe that is why the US also imports some oil still to this today, since sour crude ia cheaper than sweet.

“Saudi Arabia may try to Adapt to a world without oil prominemce but they will fail, in the same way the Kongo Kingdom failed as the demand for slavery fell to nothing.” Btw I’m using quotes because KZread has repeatedly censored my comments on various videos.

@skywise001

3 ай бұрын

I got my first warning about my comments - didnt tell me what comment or where so it was kind of worthless.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

​@@skywise001 that's to keep you tip-toeing permanently trying to guess what might result in a ban... 😉

@Demopans5990

3 ай бұрын

@kittytrail It's more scambots. This channel is large enough that I expect the comment's section to be littered with them. He's prob using the tool under yt vid zo_uoFI1WXM

@JB-yb4wn

3 ай бұрын

Well you keep slandering Saudi Arabia who is a major shareholder in Google. Perhaps if you substitute Saudi Arabia with the Kingdom of the Camel Jockeys, you won't get censured. 😁

@markdowding5737

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia will still have a multi-billion dollar tourism (of the religious kind) industry that is not going to decrease anytime soon. I find it hard to believe they will ever truly collapse. They might have to switch from owning 10 hundred million worth Yatchs to just one though.

I ran a couple security details for a couple of lesser Saudi royalty. They will waste millions shopping, but not pay their bills.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

you would probably do the same if you had the same impunity as they have.

@jonevansauthor

3 ай бұрын

@@kittytrail I wouldn't because I'm not a sociopath. It's not being rich or royal that does that to them, it's being awful human beings. Which is absolutely nothing to do with the money they have.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

@@jonevansauthor where did i put money as a cause? i talked about _impunity_ and, yes, money might be an aggravating behavioural factor but money without impunity doesn't make people behave like this usually. 🙄

@chrissiek8706

3 ай бұрын

​@@jonevansauthorI'd say, being born and raised in unimaginable wealth does something for ones personality, maybe if they'd be less rich, then less sociopathic too

@WarPigstheHun

3 ай бұрын

​​@@jonevansauthorI disagree. Johnny Depp horribly mismanaged and neglected his bank account and so did Nicholas Cage. They are not horrible human beings, they are just fallible humans. When you are used to spending, you will forget to check on it. It has nothing to do with being a bad person. Even intelligent people will neglect the simplest things, what makes you think you're better?

for those who will go to italy: don't break stuff claiming that it's a souvenir, just buy a thing from a store, make all the pictures you want, just don't touch anything that looks old or fragile. Please refrain from vandalism in any forms: Don't be a jackass, and you won't end up fined or jailed. Hope you enjoy italy! Signed: a concerned italian

Honestly out of all the ways to blow money, I kinda get the falcons on the plane. Man had the budget to upgrade his beloved pets journey from a cramped ride in cages to a roomier and comfier one.😁

@jonevansauthor

3 ай бұрын

If you're going to cruelly force a bird onto a plane, you might as well do it the minimal respect of giving it some space. Plus, do you really want to be on a plane with 80 falcons going out of their minds with terror? The fewer passengers on that flight the better I'd imagine - probably all falconers at some level. The dog and horse people are no different to me.

@somethinglikethat2176

3 ай бұрын

Fr. If I was rich and flying somewhere, my dogs would be up in first class with me.

@Youser999

3 ай бұрын

​@@somethinglikethat2176Proving once again that first class doesn't necessarily mean you have any

@Hunter-tn7og

3 ай бұрын

@@Youser999 Caring for your animals enough to treat them well is far classier than you clearly are with that mentality.

Arab Spring video sounds like a good idea tbh. Also, would love to hear your take on Salazar of Portugal and Franco of Spain

@dianapennepacker6854

3 ай бұрын

The royal friendly would lavish their citizens with good benefits, and easy government jobs. No taxes till recently I think. I read many government workers only worked one hour a day hah. So no one revolted. Now that the oil is running out... Well... The younger generation is getting worried. I've read articles that Saudis don't like to work. Not like we do in the west or especially South Korea or Japan. Anyway some of the middle eastern countries have wild economies. Qatar and Oman come to mind.

@residentgrey

3 ай бұрын

There is a novella about that Salazar time, yes?? The best I can translate the title is How Things Used to Be. It is a good show with actors seen in other shows and is a good drama on its own, with complex characters that deserves a nod by non-Portuguese speakers.

suddenly remembering a fictional apocalypse documentary asking; "what'd happen if the world ran out of oil"? reminds me of the many solutions was to ramp up renewable energy, switch to nuclear energy, or revert back to steam.

@SeruraRenge11

3 ай бұрын

That's just Mad Max, Mad Max is a world where the gas ran out.

@Demopans5990

3 ай бұрын

@SeruraRenge11 Or 1970's US

@LaFonteCheVi

3 ай бұрын

The only way renewable energy transition is possible is with MASSIVE increases in oil-based energy production. Green energy is extremely expensive, energy-intensive, and complicated to spin up. To build enough EV charging stations in the US alone would required DOUBLING of all copper production on Earth. And that is just the US. Not to mention that for most countries, green energy sources result in a net negative energy return due to geography. The reality is the energy transition is a long ways off. Also, we aren't running out of oil. The US shale reserves, which could be tapped at a around $80-$100/br amount to a total reserve of around 3 trillion barrels. By far the largest on Earth.

@Demopans5990

3 ай бұрын

@LaFonteCheVi Except oil would also be around $100 per barrel. Which means we're back to $4/gal or higher for gas

@LuoSon312_G8

3 ай бұрын

@@Demopans5990 i think the estimates put the values at minimum $5-$10 per gallon at the pumps before regoinal inflation raises the price. locations closer to highways or main depots would be $0.50-$1.50 cheaper than major towns (being held to market standards), and almost $2-$5 markups in metropolitan areas depending on the fuel type.

Feels like Civ and Saudi Arabia is trying to speedrun the cultural victory

@samvimes2061

3 ай бұрын

you need to advance past the medieval era to achieve that.

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia might be backwards in some ways, but they are very smart and educated in others. Such as how they treat women. We need to treat them more like 2016 Saudi Arabia everywhere.

Analysis of their oil basin before everyone was kicked out and Saudi Aramco took it all over predicted they should have already run dry years ago. The original analysis was probably off but it likely wasn't absurdly off. So if I had to guess about whether or not they are about to run out, I'd say it's probably coming up in the next decade.

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia might be backwards in some ways, but they are very smart and educated in others. Such as how they treat women. We need to treat them more like 2016 Saudi Arabia everywhere.

@vorisodan4627

3 ай бұрын

I doubt that tbh, since 2020 they discovered 6 new oil and gas fields and they keep on digging 😂 idk to me that landmark seems hella rich with oil and gas but eventually they will run out but i dont think it would be in a decade maybe 4 or 5 decades.

@user-bv3qt2jt2v

Ай бұрын

@@LeiSnows no they are not

Basically they are trying to find a way of diversifying their economy, not abandon oil. Because the oil will run out soon enough.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

oil will *not* run out soon. the "reserves" they tout are always under reported and they're not as stupid as them europoors to cut off all their cheap sources of energy and hence sources of productive income(nuclear and cheap russkie gas and oil). by creating a narrative of reduced production "'cause we're near the end of oil" and adjusting production just low enough for sustaining oil prices way over their costs and -paying- having their western oil companies and policritters sidekicks wail and kvetch while raking insane profits from the wells to the gas tank. if you want to know if we're running out or not check by yourself how much is spent in the frenetic search for new oil fields and modernisation of extraction methods around the world that would make even more insane profits for those investing in those if the wells of today were dryin' up tomorrow... 😏👆

@Dsaberguy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, from the informericial i just watch, i just assumed that it rich people being rich

@Hadi_83

3 ай бұрын

Yes and The last part about the application is funny more than true go see the app yourself i didn't think people can be this stupid 😂😂😂😂

@joelwillems4081

3 ай бұрын

It's their 2040 vision. Their Prince was on a worldwide tour until the House of Saud decided to commit some crimes and cover it up by killing a reporter. Almost makes the UK royalty seem like decent people, almost.

@mikerentiers

3 ай бұрын

Not in the USA - we are about to lead the world in production, just found the largest deposit ever for the US. And the USGA says they predict we have far, far more to be discovered in Permean Basin.

I think something you missed in comparing USA Oil production/consumption compared to Saudi is that the USA is also the world leader on petroleum refinement. Not all of that Oil is "consumed" within the USA, a lot of it is used as an input to a value-add process, adding more economic value to the product, before then consuming it or exporting the refined products. Saudi Arabia ... doesn't. At least not nearly as much. Their "economy" is based almost entirely on just digging the raw good out of the ground and exporting it.

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia might be backwards in some ways, but they are very smart and educated in others. Such as how they treat women. We need to treat them more like 2016 Saudi Arabia everywhere.

If the Saudis are actually serious about eradicating or reducing clan structures wouldnt it make sense to rebrand the country from SAUDI Arabia to just, Arabia, or United Arabia? Since SAUDI Arabia is kind of blasting "clan ran Kingdom" all across its nation.

Reading the House of Saud Wikipedia page is reading Fire and Blood but without any dragons in it

My sister in law is a teacher specialized in Data Science, The Saudi government is paying their youth to attend to a lot of boot-camps and courses, one may not agree with a lot around Saudi Arabia, but at least they are trying to prevent dutch disease and the curse of rich natural resources.

@smokedbeefandcheese4144

2 ай бұрын

They are trying but it won’t work tools affect you just as much as you affect them. They have all this wealth and they have all this money and it will affect them and their character no matter what their parents try to do. Because ultimately money isn’t even a tool it is a social relationship

@chrissmith3587

Ай бұрын

It doesn’t matter as a software engineer I don’t want to live in Saudi As soon as they stop subsidising this industry, the work will collapse due to fears of data being controlled by the Saudi government

@arthurmiranda8896

Ай бұрын

@@chrissmith3587 Completely agree, if they can't turn into a country you WANT to live in, it will all be in vain.

As an Australian, I'm just happy to know that we probably have a bigger proven reserve of sand. I think it is long past time that you do an episode on which country has the greatest proven reserves of sand...;-)

@jesuschrist5846

3 ай бұрын

Sand,sand everywhere and not enough swimming pool filters to put it in

@GaudiaCertaminisGaming

3 ай бұрын

What’s the price per bucket? I’m in the market for a big bucket of sand, assuming all the kangaroo turds have been sieved out.

@greg.kasarik

3 ай бұрын

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming Do you know how many Kangaroo turds there are in a bucket of sand? As many as you want! 🙂 Unfortunately, given that it is purely black market stuff, I'm going to have to charge 10,000 per bucket, as I have to drive out there, clean out the turds and smuggle it past our customs, and make sure it doesn't fall into the hands of yours. Its a difficult, dangerous, smelly job...

My nephew actually went to Saudi Arabia recently on a mission trip. We worried a lot as we heard, and he was prepped for, possible persecution that could of happened. Thankfully he actually received a rather warm welcome and everything ended up going very well. That was the first time I heard about the Crown Prince and his attempts to really update things. Things don't happen over night so I'm not surprised a lot of it is baby steps but hopefully it can continue to expand from there. It's always better to have healthy countries with happy people than it is desperate and unhappy people. I really enjoyed this video it felt like an expansion of a lot of the things my nephew talked about when he came back.

@user-rg2rp3xq6i

3 ай бұрын

اذا طبق الاسلام في بلدا او مكان لازم تعرف انه سوف يكون آمن للجميع

@pipipupu5104

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-rg2rp3xq6iSaudi Arabia is de radicalizing itself from islam allowing women to drive, party have alcohol. Build DJ discos and banning use of loud speaker and public display of namaz. If it was islam Saudi Arabia would look like Afghanistan.

@Youser999

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-rg2rp3xq6iTell that to women, gay, bi or trans people

@toseltreps1101

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-rg2rp3xq6i"that's BS like MBS. Islam is a violent religion for sand people"

@joshlewis575

3 ай бұрын

Bots

I know they’re a ton of work, but I love the longer videos! Thank you for putting this together in such a clear and concise manner!

The current House of Saud is the 3rd rendition of this particular house. So don't dismiss them completely, once the oil runs out.

@tkelly6121

3 ай бұрын

wut you mean? Saud families only really been relevant since their war after ww2, they are a pretty modern thing.

saudi arabian citzen here:the clans issue is actually being worked on with a simple solution. higher positions can't be held unless you give up your clan name for a family name(something like your father or grandfather's names or nick names), this is the case with the government sectors. in terms of the private sectors that is an aggressively different sector that would replace you in an instant the moment they know your even slacking not just being corrupt. allot of employees are now being replaced with female employees and managers too are now mostly being replaced with more female managers because they are allot less relaxed and allot more strict and would actually accept lower income. this might cause a problem in the future if society doesn't adjust too well with this change but if it ever does this would mean that the private sector would change for the better. hardship always comes first.

That $400 million yacht of MBS's could host a LOT of simultaneous journalist disassemblies.

@somethinglikethat2176

3 ай бұрын

It was a turning point for global opinion of MBS. I had been seen in a relatively good light, the overnight it changed to "just another bloodthirsty dictator". Kinda put a hole in his Saudi 2030 plans. It was funny watching MBS slowly figure out that action can have consequences however.

@anteep4900

3 ай бұрын

or a lot of instagram scatfluencers

@wordsofcheresie936

3 ай бұрын

Yes, the reason that dictators like yachts so much is that they are away from police and military forces. National laws do not apply. You can do things on yachts in the middle of the ocean that you can't do on land.

@LeiSnows

3 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia might be backwards in some ways, but they are very smart and educated in others. Such as how they treat women. We need to treat them more like 2016 Saudi Arabia everywhere.

@anteep4900

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! The Saudis are right about women@@LeiSnows

“May the House of Saud and their polity fall forever into the Reaper’s Embrace.”

Oil has been the last vestige of the Middle East being relevant on the world stage, since the suez canal, modern shipping, and the collapse of the silk road by those and other factors. The sheer waste, the years of lack of effort to improve...it's mind boggling. And this hasn't mentioned the billions that arabia has put into weapons in its dick measuring contest with Tehran. Ah the line, saw that in a video about Archologies and WARHAMMER 40K HIVES, and there's serious concerns about the line as well, like how it'll have a literal division of sunlight access for the, again literal, 'lower classes'. It's rainforest canopy all over again. Imo, Saudi arabia is trying to do too much, too late, and is essentially throwing money at the problems like people accuse America of doing. It is going to fail, they needed to do this *generations* ago and at this point, it's a matter of the money holding it all together running out and then it's going to fall apart.

@jonevansauthor

3 ай бұрын

Huh? I've never heard America accused of throwing money at problems - I'd have said it was the exact opposite. The Hive cities are supposed to be the worst thing in a horrific future. They're not a recommendation, any more than Mega City One is. As for light in the Line, I think that's a silly concern, but only because it's no different to any other city with tall buildings. I feel like windows will take care of the bits people want light in, and sunlight is not magical or special. Do I think they'll get it all built? Not really, but is it bad in principle to have a linear city? I haven't seen anything halfway convincing. I am convinced by architects saying shipping container homes aren't worth the effort because they've tried it, and found it expensive and time consuming so it's pointless.

Bro I thought I was only 20 minutes in and then you said “thanks for watching.” I do my homework to your videos and time just flew by listening to this

You know what’s funny, a-lot of modern day events mirror the Fallout Game’s Pre War backstory (The Resource Wars)

Thank you for putting this together in such a clear and concise manner!

Commenting to feed the algorithm because more people need to be aware of this. I just learned 100x more about Saudi history and politics than I did at the beginning of this video.

Isn’t their a saying in Saudi Arabia; The grandfather rode a camel, then oil was discovered. The father and child rode Mercedes, and the grandchild will ride a camel once more?

Thank you for continued great content and work!

Awesome Video. Thanks for the work you put in.

Genuinely a great video. The level of information and detail is so well presented I know I am going to have to work through more of your videos. cheers m8

Appreciate all the hard work that goes into making these videos and I pray and I hope for your great success in the future

Thank you so much guys. You are enlightening us

Love these long videos, keep up the nice work!

Terrific video, well researched and presented, thank you!!

Very interesting thanks you for your amazing work :)

Thank you for your passion, dedication and great speaking skills for these videos. I really appreciate everything you do and makes me understand a lot of things about lots of subjects. Thank you

Loved the video. Watched it right to the end.

Insane commitment! Well done

Great video! Thx

That was a great and very informative video. Thanks a lot and greetings from Paris.

THE LINE biggest failure will be who will want to live in confined and very expensive apartments in country where you have little personal freedom .

@sc1338

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree, however I think they’re going to relax the laws they said

great content man!

thanks for making the video.

Outstanding video! Keep it up!

Great work!

Loved the whole thing

Honestly I wish KZread would create a talking head category because I just listened to this video while I’m working and honestly I don’t think I really missed anything and you describe it well enough I don’t need to watch

Great educational video

Very great recap

Great vid!

Great vid❤

Excellent video.

GOOD VID!!! Keep it up!!

Thank you sir You make overtime go alot quicker

Saw a video of that Line city. Something straight out of post-apocalyptic movie from the 80s, where something like that goes wrong, OR only the rich live well & the poor are on the bottom.

Man, I so love videos on mega/giga projects and how they succeed, or more often, fail horribly. Would love to see more of that content.

Good piece

i love your long form content

10:22 Lol Captain Falcon must be flying that plane.

I hope you enjoy your trip! I'm basically a walking heater and prefer colder climates. Even if I had the money the thought taking a trip to the desert gives me the willie's. That last part is a comment about Saidiarabia not Rome.

Nice job!

excellent and fair analysis

The whole change to mecca is also part of this. The big clock annoyed many Muslims

Please do a video about the Arab Spring, your content is great, thanks!

Hey, this explaner was fantastic!

I have been working in Saudi Arabia since 2018. On the 13 December 2023 i saw Metallica live in Riyadh. Things have changed a lot.

Saudi Arabia is facing an extreme uphill battle. They're trying to have their own Meji Restoration, only they're trying to speedrun it, as if the Meji Restoration wasn't already a speedrun of industrial and social modernization. Instead of spending so much on mega projects and sports, they should focus on saving a currency reserve to glide on while reforming the country in a process that would take decades to achieve properly.

Its kinda hard to imagine how ridiculously Saudi Family rich is but you just need to hear or read the news about their "projects" (like their plan for The Line as self-sustaining building) and than you can figure out how rich they must be to even think about projects like this.

On Saudi Arabia’s bid to get the World Cup it is also worth noting that FIFA put the 2030 World Cup in 3 different continents so only an Asian Country could host the 2034 World Cup… which paved the way for Saudi Arabia to get the bid uncontested.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

smart use of the hand delivered suitcase full of cash and a couple gold Rolex watches... 🤡👌

@somethinglikethat2176

3 ай бұрын

Giovanni Infantino is the GOAT of sports corruption. And we all thought Sepp Blatter was bad.

@jonevansauthor

3 ай бұрын

I don't get it. Sports is always corrupt, and FIFA is probably the gold standard of that. I'm not sure there's a single sporting body that's not thought to be wildly corrupt, is there? These people can't even sort out fair uniforms for people to play ball games on a beach. They can't even enforce the basic rules in a soccer match and they're fine with people getting concussions or much worse injuries. They'll shoot horses after making them break their legs. The sport people are not cool.

could you make a video on various historic battles that has changed the face of warfare as it was known or simply the face of the nations in general?

The line is one of the most idiotic concepts for a city ever proposed. Its just there as a way to funnel money into slush funds as needed.

@c_rock3512

3 ай бұрын

I couldn’t imagine the congestion if a rail line goes down.

@huma474

3 ай бұрын

@@c_rock3512 beyond even that - its supposed to be a giant glass and metal city in one of the hottest deserts in the world. For a quick breakdown on how dumb it is look at NEOM Is The Parody Of The Future

@huma474

3 ай бұрын

​@@c_rock3512 search for NEOM Is The Parody Of The Future , it goes over a lot of the engineering problems with the whole idea

I am commenting for the KZread gods. Direct your algorithm to this man and empower him with views!

I watched to the end. Was very informative and well presented. I'd personally like to see something on the wieger population in China but even a comment on it might get deleted not to mention a full video. So far most of what I've seen read or herd was just refrances and a fear to go anywhere near the subject. Alternatively, it'd be interesting to see if you could map out the Saudi tribes and each of their relations with eachother as well as maybe neighbor nations. We know they have a somewhat functioning relationship with isreal but how do the other tribes feel about that?

By any chance can you do a video on the world's largest coal reserves, the Powder River Basin?

awesome video, thank you. Can you do one on Yeman, UEA and Qutar?

@toomanymarys7355

3 ай бұрын

How did you misspell all three????

They are such an amazing country and their recent developments are absolutely incredible. Highly interested in their future

Wow sure could condense this .

I would love a Great Works series. it would be super interesting to see what rulers and governments thought was important at the time, from the practical and useful to the opulent and ruinous

I was thinking of "sand" and "beheadings"... oops ... MEA CVLPA ... They a no teacha civics in Portlanni skools.

The spice must flow.

Great video and it is so weird to see what it really looks like to "be rich"!

Good job! You should profile other interesting countries on occasion. Maybe Spain? Spanish history is wild, and seeing how they got to modern Spain could be neato.

The trip sounds awesome have fun dude

Took me the course of a day and a few minutes on a midnight food binge but i made it to the end lol

It’s not running out of oil but easy oil and trimming production increases price overall and makes it last longer.

Theyve been running out for awhile honestly its just been technology and techniqe advancements that have been keeping it going

Part2🙏

what if I want to do the florence trip but I'm already in italy?

Very interesting, I watched the whole thing. Thank you my friend. Cheers

Not sure what mic you are using, but have to say that it doesn't seem great. It's not the worst but it definitely is noticable against other channels.

This is my first time watching your channel but your voice sounds so simular to Blue from OSP who covers history on that channel.

When Obama visited the Saudis, they tried to give him all sorts of incredibly lavish gifts. Unfortunately for Obama, US law required that he deny them, which he did.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

have you checked his garage on Martha's vineyard to be so sure he didn't accept 'em? 😏

@kevincronk7981

3 ай бұрын

@kittytrail I am purely referring to what he said in his book. I don't know him. He's obviously not entirely reliable in that book, he basically said Dimitri medvedev was a great guy limited by how much Putin sucks, but these days most western news outlets are pretty sure Medvedev is just one of Putin's yes men and fully on board with all the terrible shit he does. But I am fairly certain he denied the particular gifts he mentioned, becuase there is record of the government taking them. Also presidents already get paid a ton and most of their expenses taken care of, plus the ability to give talks and sell books to their heart's content, they don't really need more money.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

@@kevincronk7981 pretty gullible you seem to be as none of what you spouted there is even remotely objectively true and/or historically correct... 🧐

@prestonjones1653

3 ай бұрын

​@@kittytrail Should I bring up the list of times the Congress confiscated gifts given to previous Presidents? Just off the top of my head Van Buren was gifted twontiger cubs by the Sultan of Oman and Cingress took them away and put them in a zoo.

@kevincronk7981

3 ай бұрын

@@kittytrail I'm talking about what I read in a specific book. I'm not claiming that the book is true, just what Obama said after leaving politics. The book in particular is a promised land

Due to COVID most people missed the fact that Saudi aramco had one of their pipelines blown up in December 2019, it was over a 2Trillion dollar loss.

They aren’t even close to running out of oil. The scarcity has always been essentially artificial with tight controls on production and extraction. There will be centuries of oil and gas still in the ground by the time we have phased out its use.

Would definitely love to hear more about Saudi Arabia. Interested to hear about how they have a different Social Contract than in the West where the government highly subsidizes COL in return for allowing the royal family to remain in power. What sort of things are subsidized and how does that affect education levels and career engagement among the citizens (since guest workers are a fairly straightforward answer)

@user-rg2rp3xq6i

3 ай бұрын

تعلم الأسلام وتعرف الاجابه لان الشعب متدين بطبعه

@gamingforever9121

3 ай бұрын

@@user-rg2rp3xq6idoesn’t have to mean belief in Islam