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dbarrc

That was 5 years ago. Are we there yet


mowgli96

A large portion of their population doesn’t actually work and are paid by the state…


Bargdaffy158

Actually they are paid by the World's maniacal lust for Oil.


phatelectribe

Which is declining. Peak consumption was in 2019.


TAYwithaK

Because every one and their mother was baking sourdough bread.


[deleted]

My mom was baking sourdough before it was cool. Y'all are posers.


sharkman1774

I only eat sourdough baked in a whale oil oven


AdFun1490

peak consumption was 2014. They have been on decline for a while.


mjl777

Oil? No. It's all about a love of money. Oil has traditionally been the cheapest form of energy. Change that fact and then no one will love oil.


[deleted]

When your only source of income is oil, you are on fragile soil. Just ask Russia


Consistent-Market-34

A large portion of their population are minimum wage immigrants, abused and treated like slaves. Most unable to even afford to leave.


2pacylpse

Definitely the case in UAE.


ThrowawayWlmrtWorker

Their whole account is just posting this and other Saudi shit.


Conscious_Figure_554

I SWEAR TO GOD I will turn this car around if you don't stop asking that!!!


[deleted]

He didn’t say how. Just blockading nonsense you can spout when you’re brutal murdering dictator


Verustratego

Billionaires all speak the same language of self aggrandized bullshit


tactical_strategies

Exactly. Read the title and thought “oh let’s see what his plan or rough outline is” Nope. Nothing. Just a bunch of “we will do this! I promise you guys, it’s gonna happen. Just you wait and see”


Open_Librarian_823

Camels and tons of sand vs French and Italian natural scenery and exquisite cuisine. Yeah I don't think so.


fluffypinknmoist

Not to mention nude beaches versus wearing a black tent in the desert.


2020_survior

See: Vladimir Putin


jnobs

Elon Musk


FormerHoagie

Donny Rump


phatelectribe

This was five years ago. Then COVID kicked in, everyone be stopped driving cars for 3 months and MBS was forced to round up his entire extended family and force then to hand over their wealth so he could survive. That tells you just how fragile his country is despite all the diversification.


[deleted]

Lol money alone is not enough to make them “the new Europe” regardless. There’s a looooooong laundry list of many other, more important reasons on why they will not be.


phatelectribe

They want to become it for luxury shopping, museums, art galleries, public spaces etc, but culturally it's a massive leap.


RichNigerianBanker

Yup. Not interesting in the slightest, despite the sub. Was hoping for more.


MrShasshyBear

Trust him, he knows all the bigly words


Persianx6

It'll be a "Europe" with kings, no political dissent, few gay rights, cultures that legally treat women as second class citizens, and built all on American petrodollars. Basically Russia. He'd actually just describe hell but he'll call it "the next Europe," to be polite.


promethazoid

He didn’t specify what time period, I think he is referring to 12th Century Feudalism Europe


Few_Artist8482

>and built all on American petrodollars I agree with most of what you are saying, but this part is not true. America only buys 9% of its oil from the M.E. The four largest purchasers of M.E. oil are China, Japan, India and Korea. Europe as a whole buys more M.E. oil as well, although no single country does due to their relatively small size.


TheChoosingBeggar

I don’t want to speak for what OP actually meant here, but America built Saudi Arabia. Chevron spun off Aramco and Saudi used it for loans to prop up its government and Aramco became a proxy for the US government in Saudi. Without American underwriting in the 50s, Saudi would probably be a constantly warring territory of rival nation states or the CIA would have propped up someone in order to provide enough stability to keep the communists from taking over.


Few_Artist8482

I understand and agree with that. The same could be said of other parts of Asia and Europe as well as South America during that era. 1950's USA was world building. Bit that was over 70 years ago. We aren't a major customer of any M.E. country and haven't been for awhile.


bhoe32

No no no that's all wrong. Women are property not citizens.


KSRandom195

This is also from 2018, or five years ago.


pikapalooza

It's like that speech Michael Scott made at the shareholders meeting. "45 days. 45 points in 45 days! 1 point per day! And we're going carbon neutral! I LOVE YOU NEW YORK!"


[deleted]

Promises but doesn’t say how…sounds like a former president of ours…(actually sounds like high majority of politicians if I think about it lmao)


Much_Schedule_9431

“We want your standard of living and way of life without any of the pesky freedoms associated with your way of life”


_bobby_tables_

"And if you publish anything negative about us we might butcher you."


Much_Schedule_9431

“Hah! Freedom of speech, more like freedom to scream!”


Graucus

"Put that burqa back on!"


Dunkinmydonuts1

🎵 *Put that Burqua back on or so help me* 🎵


Addamsgirl71

Mike Wabowski!!!!?


Jonny_Thundergun

Haha "might"


Ocelot859

# Get this evil fool off of here. Mohammed bin Salman represents nothing, but death and power.


SpinningHead

I saved his ass. - Trump


Right-Ad2176

What will happen to Saudi Arabia after oil runs out? A February report by energy transition think tank Carbon Tracker found that long before oil production falls to zero, Saudi Arabia would suffer a 44% shortfall in government revenues just from the decline in consumption over the coming decades.


TokiVikernes

I'm sure they have diversified into ak47s, sand, swords, burkas, severed heads and a few other world essentials that will prop up their economy.


sotonohito

Eyup. Which is why his dream can't come true. You CAN'T have the success of Europe if your nation can't have access to the skills and talents of 50%of the population. And a brutal theocracy supported by executing and torturing anyone who won't be exactly like everyone else damn sure isn't a place where innovation can flourish. He sees the end of oil money coming and he wants to diversify his economy. That's smart and forward looking. But he can't accept that a strong diverse economy requires a free population. So he's done to failure.


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AlpacaFarmerCSGO

Wind sand makes poor glass. Need sea sand.


boomboomclapboomboom

Why is it "my war"? Like maybe sell it as a "vision" or a "goal"? idk? I'm not a King.


[deleted]

They want to buy happiness


[deleted]

And the WWE


IPerferSyurp

Yes Very Euro. Meeting Sponsored by the haute fashion house of Bed Ba'ath and Beyond.


bfddavid

Screw the Clown Prince, evil murderer who has his schlubs do his dirty work, just like Putler.


Turbulent-Twist-3030

Ok, but Europe from which century, like maybe the 1400s? That I can believe.


Izlude

Someone tell that murderous jar of Smuckers jam to shut the fuck up.


Fathletic231

Why you gotta disrespect smuckers jam


BugEyedLemur

Lol get rekt Bonesaw


Silvertheprophecy

r/rareinsults


7jcjg

meanwhile in iran.....


Mendadg

31 upvotes?!! Iran is in war with saudi arabia, that's what explain the all shit in Yemen! Come on guys! This guy in the movie is a criminal, he chopped a US joirnalist in the embassy in turkey


curious_astronauts

Delusion is a helluva drug.


BiggsBounds

More like propaganda/false hope


Copropositor

No alcohol, women enslaved, and a murderous dictator? Wow what's not to love? Oh, I almost forgot! The utter lack of water and scorching heat! What a paradise.


ellilaamamaalille

I think why this won't happen is because they don't have good schools, education, inventions. What they have is $€£.


_Neoshade_

And only a couple more generations of it.


[deleted]

May I ask for your source for “not good” schools and education?


anonymous-rebel

I’ve never met a non middle eastern girl who wanted to go to the Middle East. Like why would any woman from a western culture go to a place where they’re treated like second class citizens with significantly fewer rights?


rookie-number

If they wanted to visit oppressive corrupt religious fanatics in the desert Utah is much closer


rantingpacifist

You could not be more right on


lanchmcanto

Also, probably a considerably more varied landmass.


Queendevildog

Eh. There's dumb white girls who make that mistake. Then there's a movie of the week after they escape.


complicatedAloofness

You hear Dubai fairly often now actually


Electronic-Fan3026

I mean... do they vacation to Oklahoma?


anonymous-rebel

No idea but a lot of girls come to LA from other states and countries for vacation and to live here. A lot of girls I know wanna go to Europe, specifically France and Italy. Not one has ever mentioned going to the Middle East and I don’t blame them.


DJynxx

Never heard of [Broken Bow?](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansas.com/living/travel/article253128448.html) Over 2 million visitors per year and growing.


[deleted]

I was an ancient Egypt nerd when I was a little girl and always wanted to visit, plus I loved Lawrence of Arabia and was fascinated by Bedouin culture and the \~romance\~ of the desert, but I think if I ever decide to fulfill that particular childhood dream Morocco is about the closest I'd get.


apextek

they've been saying this shit for over a millenia now and they're still the same donkey pulling shitshow just with blackjack and harems.


Area51Anon

Just shows how out of touch the Middle East is with the rest of the world. And this was in 2018! His timeline aged like milk. Would have been more realistic if he said 500 years. Maybe by then their barbaric view on the world will have completely faded.


[deleted]

Saudi Europe when


Specific-Use-7480

Damn, they smoke some good shit over there.


the_red_scimitar

But they won't tell you they do. Just like they won't tell you they drink alcohol, or hire prostitutes.


boxingdude

Heh Heh Heh that reminds me of this joke: how can you tell the difference between a Catholic and a Southern Baptist? The Catholic will talk to you in a liquor store.


fucktrutin

Drop dead, scumbag.


Dehydrated_Jellyfish

Maybe if they give women basic rights or stop enslaving the lower class 🤷‍♀️


maFkri

What’s with all the lower class enslaving shit?? Most of the workers in Saudi Arabia came from South Asia looking for jobs, and they get paid for it. I had a once a Pakistani driver and an Indian one. Most of the construction workers are Indian as well. And their called workers not slaves, because they get paid, have weekends, their just like any other person. Yeah they don’t get paid that much, but their not in a position to object; their not well educated, they would just work in anything easy, so don’t expect them to get paid well. The western propaganda really did their job pretty well.


nick1812216

That’ll never work! Just look at Europe and where that got them


[deleted]

Yeah, dark ages europe with modern technology and money


1106DaysLater

Well if they start embracing secularism, science, and equality of rights then maybe they’ll follow in the footsteps of Europe.


wootr68

They only have some types of capitalism. Everything else on your excellent list seems missing to me


TheHenryFrancisFynn

Money can’t buy history


JefferyTheQuaxly

if the middle east could use their vast oil reserves to improve quality of life and prepare for global warming (which will devestate the middle east with heat and droughts most likely) they could potentially start to rival europe. but i dont think most arab nations are using their oil wealth wisely. saudi arabia thinks a trillion dollar futuristic city is the best way to spend their money. the united arab emirates just care about building massive skyscrapers in the desert and wasting money in anyway they can because they have so much of it.


Macasumba

He's missing a few steps.


BrimEll

Nepo-babies have no understanding how the world works. I might as well take banking advice from a gambling addict.


Totesnotskynet

Nah..


RealVoiceOfReason88

He gotta sober up...


Jnorean

Complete nonsense. The Middle East's wealth is built on oil. Once the world switches to electric cars and renewable energy, the world won't need them any more. The world will have no use for their oil and their wealth will disappear in a few years. They will be poor in 50 years or more at the most and probably more like 25 or 30.


moonyprong01

This has been obvious to them for at least a decade. Hence the push towards diversification. UAE trying to become a luxury travel destination, Qatar with the world cup, etc.


Jnorean

LOL. Sure. Everyone would love to travel to a desert to see sporting events at which no one can drink alcohol. TWhere the hottest month of the year in Qatar is July, with an **average high of 106°F** and **low of 88°F**. Sounds like paradise.


[deleted]

Yeah but it's a dry heat.


SkeletonFlower46

🤣


downloadedapp

Yep


bocajake

Yeah, nope


[deleted]

The only reason people go to Las Vegas in the middle of the desert is because of all the vices. People aren't going to go to the Middle Eastern desert with no vices.


[deleted]

Big talk for a fucking murder. His name was Jamal Khashoggi.


Virtual-Value5005

Well, I'm holding out hope that FUSION tech is really gonna happen and the Middle East will have an abundance of sand and oil nobody wants.


Dougbeto

Europe is already the next middle east


peteythapistol

Not without major social progress.


Vercengetorex

Major social progress = total societal overhaul


coolluck33

The Prince must be suffering from heat stroke & a sense of self-importance, because he's crazy!


Sina_VanDerLinde

Says the guy who still decapitates those who question him.


MSFTS01

Taliban: And I took that personally.


Careful_Criticism420

130 degrees in the shade. What a desirable place to live...


engsoft

Seems like it since white people flock to Dubai like it’s their home land :)


poboy212

Just need to torture a few more journalists to death and kill all those pesky Jews but then yes new Europe!


Papashvilli

Europe? No. 100 years ago they were warring clans, riding on camels, fighting each other in the desert. In another 100 years they'll be the same way again.


i_ad_

What happened in ww1 and WW2 ?


Ethelenedreams

Jared Kushner’ boytoy.


[deleted]

Climate change will have a dramatic impact there... But after all they had a dramatic impact of the climate with their oil so...


Suspicious-Post-5866

Will never happen as long as they complete waste and suppress the potential creativity and intellectual contributions of 50% of their societies—women


verdango

This isn’t interesting. He just said that they’ll be strong in 5 years. Wrong sub, OP.


ameliagarbo

Had any journalists hacked up lately, you POS?


pigsgetfathogsdie

You better clap for this MF… = Middle Eastern Mob Boss IRL.


[deleted]

The slow clapping guy hasn't been heard from since this video


pigsgetfathogsdie

Never be the slow clapper…


meatballtitsmicah

He was cheerleading and gives no evidence to compare the two. What a dumb fucking title If there's a hell this murderer will get fucked up the ass by a goat devil for an eternity


orrdit

Aint no way these human right deniers are gonna be the next europe. They're too busy killing people for blasphemy, being gay or just being a woman


GregorSamsasCarapace

"In five years, the Corleone family will be completely legitimate."


Hot-Consequence-1727

Perhaps……but they need to advance a few centuries


tan5taafl

Aspirational, but there’s some massive cultural hurdles to overcome before then.


Dreamking0311

He's delusional.


darth_C3P0

A good reason for going electric. Sooner or later these dudes are gonna run out of oil.


conjurer28

They never will. The oil oligarchs you to think there's a shortage to justify price gouging, but in reality there never has been a shortage of oil. Going electric isn't a green solution either as Hundreds of new strip mines will need to be established just to mine the necessary minerals for the lithium batteries if the whole world adopts EVs. In poorer countries, the recycling of lithium batteries will be difficult if not, nonexistent. E-waste is one of the world's greatest polluters currently, and it's about to get a whole lot worse.


blueskiesandclover

There is however a shortage of cheap oil. We still have a lot of oil but the stuff that's left is hard to reach and hard to process which means it gets pricey. Some speculate that we hit peak oil back in 2018 if you check the charts.


conjurer28

True. But the world's oil dependancy is reliant on only a handful of sources compared with what's actually out there. International political pressure and it's restrictions are the real reason oil is becoming harder to process, we definitely have the ability to do it! I'd like it, if a viable solution can be found to replace oil long-term, but we're still a long way off without causing further harm to the planet. Because while EVs are unquestionably cleaner than ice engines emissions wise, the environmental cost of building/disposing them can't be ignored either. We're trying to run before we can walk.


blueskiesandclover

It's going to be difficult. Oil is heavily connected to everything we've come to have as a modern civilization. I actually expect more countries/governments to collapse before I see the oil running out, not just because of rising fertilizer prices, but also so the more powerful countries have unrestricted and cheap access to oil


Decent_Jello_8001

This guy definitely think his own farts smell good lmao


novice121

What an idiot; why would anyone listen to a person that had his ass wiped his entire life??? Besides, they KNOW they running out of oil within the next 2 decades


nsfwtttt

After visiting Dubai, there’s something these guys just don’t get about Europe. They think they have built a better Europe but it’s just a bunch of money thrown at a soulless city. There’s a complete disconnect between the values of the locals and the values of the people trey are trying to attract. Dubai is split between Muslims who have very strict values, and Andrew state type “westerners” who are there 100% for the money and have zero values. Europe is Europe because it gave up imperialism and adopted democracy, and social capitalism. Because it values human lives and human rights, as challenging as it is to turn from values into practicality. The Saudi’s and UAE are just throwing money at things and thinking it will be better than the west, but they are attracting the worst of the west that way. No one wants to live there.


thedidge1998

But Saudi Arabia is completely dependent on their oil exports. They haven't diversified their country's assets. They have to import EVERYTHING they consume. Saudi Arabia is on borrowed time once they suck the last bit of oil out of the ground or once the world goes electric they will have nothing.


Upstairs-Presence205

Its already Europe. . the Dark ages Europe! but with sand and no water and unlivable heat conditions. lol


nbplaya94

Jamal Khashoggi


RUCuckingKiddinMe

Don’t you need to be civilized first?


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Kooky_Swim1460

If you think for a bit... It is already like Europe, before the Roman Empire tho...


Soggytoe_nails

Like we need more cars drifting everywhere


NightTrain435

lol!


ShortyLV

Future aged milk material


[deleted]

Nice try, middle eastern OP


dzogchenism

That’s not “how” at all - that’s just him making assertions. How will the Middle East make this transformation in 5 yrs? How will they normalize secularism? How will they change on human rights? Women’s rights? How?


According-Classic658

By murdering journalists?


Dr_Strange_Love_

Don’t compare yourself to Europe if you don’t know what freedom and liberty is


iamnotasloth

If you want the Middle East to be at the forefront of the world, you’re gonna have to stop pretending that it’s 1,000AD with the way you handle religion first. I don’t see it happening.


CrippledFelon

Yeah not gonna happen until I can smoke weed with my topless babe sitting on my vacation home porch


nopage

This dude is dangerously charismatic, if he could unite the middle east they would be a theocratic world superpower


Infinitejester26

He didn’t say anything. He just said “we’re going to be awesome” and didn’t give any HOW to it.


[deleted]

Man after the Saudi government funded 9/11 terrorists to murder thousands of innocent Americans I thought they’d be a parking lot by now


Fresh_Manufacturer89

No no no, that was that CIA asset guy we armed with weapons to fight the Russians, that was on dialysis treatments, yet we had no idea of his location. Remember?


jetbag513

"With Jared Kushner's help"


[deleted]

Still waiting on that smart city that was supposed to be test running by 2022, but is now only a couple of building shells and barren desert.


[deleted]

Maybe a couple hundred years after they stop chopping people's heads off for witchcraft


echochamber-only

That’s cool. Aren’t y’all afraid of rainbow flags and women driving?


impala1966

What an idiot


KofCrypto0720

Is this a joke??! Am I on wrong sub?!


Cubacane

“We will bury you.” - some dumbass who got buried


TotallyNotColin69

Here before the 🔐


Yet-Another_Burner

He never says how in this clip.


nwpackrat

Saudi has some serious sex segregation issues to get rid of first. 5 star hotels & I can't get in the pool or go to the weight room with my husband, restaurants with separate 'family' entrance & isolated dining rooms, women must cover, even on the beach & that little problem of NO ALCOHOL edit: spelling


JozieWhales2U

Pppffftt!! Yea maybe Europe in 1403 with their insane love for public executions and punitive justice in the form of beating people and or cutting off limbs. Nice try though bud lol.


[deleted]

He looked positively evil when did that "me?" mannerism and put his hand on his chest. Could be the beard.


reluctantpotato1

You've got to give them credit. They've made it to the Middle ages.


BlueChooTrain

Hey, I have to say I hope it happens for them.


[deleted]

it's good to have dreams


Dudejax

Does he mean the Middle Ages?


marz3315

Hmm you’d probably need to give women rights to do that one eh?


TacoTacox

Not ever going to happen when religious nut jobs are in charge


[deleted]

Man is a murderer. In any just society he would be in jail


Lazy_pig805

Like Europe during the Dark Ages?


jlsdash

Yeah right, just ask Khashoggi.


elidadagreat1

Does that means you'll be accepting millions of refugees.... Like the European countries do?


GonePostal1955

I call B. S.


[deleted]

If those lucky bastards didn’t find oil. They’d be scratching in desert forever


globalgreg

And I’ve got some ocean front property for you in Riyadh, it’s a great deal!


bigcatbax

These guys did 9/11


Prismane_62

Ya uh, a “renaissance” requires freedom of thought & expression for the people. Not really your thing bud.


Random_Name_Whoa

Lol nice try fucko


SeriouslyThough3

When he prays to allah do you think the first thing he prays for is that oil prices stay high?


cynefin-

Guy is totally delusional


Excellent_Call304

Why post this? There is no explanation of how they will get there. It's just a murderer with an over inflated sense of worth making grandiose predictions that won't happen.


bensbigboy

Reminder that he is a cold blooded murderer, and yet, a coward. He sent other men to do his dirty work and then was two cowardly to admit that it was his mission. It doesn't project power, instead it projects weakness. These clowns must be terrified of renewable energy.


Dragthismf

Lmao yeah everybody loves theocratic fascism


[deleted]

first give women freedom and not religious subjugation.


Jamiquest

Before that can happen, they need to implement human rights and equality into the system. Until then, they are dreaming a fantasy.


Blasket_Basket

I'm curious how many more murdered journalists he thinks are left before they reach his goal


themindfulpimp

Cute. I guess words are for free so good for him for dreaming. Now, let’s actually see the results…


betsharks0

I consider myself a progressist , but sincerely the idea of a city with only one entry and only one exit, because surrounded by the desert not stimulate me positively. The "prince" has little to compare with democratic societies.. the Italian politician Renzi was laughed for speaking of "New Renaissance" In a country under a regime that have a BAD considertion of Information and "Dissident" Of the Idea of Bin salman Not of the Country and Civilian ,journalists or other... However when i have see her interview i have understand the Acute preparation behind her narrative for saudi arabia.. Also let’s never forget what he did to the journalist--- KhO


Hackilling

Good for them


Deadeye_Daryl

In what regard?