Why Saudi Arabia is doomed | Kraut | History Teacher Reacts
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- According to Kraut, Saudi Arabia is doomed. He uses the history of the African slave trade as proof. What's the connection though? Mr. Terry chimes in a lot in this video!
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What other countries do you think are doomed?
The U.S. I think there is many parallels to Ancient Rome.
@@unboxingabayonet4154 lmao right because the Visigoths are gonna be invading from Tijuana
China
@@bighillraft the goths are already inhabiting American cities 👀
Bosnia
Sorry about the little microphone cut outs. Computer was acting weird that day…
Can you type captions for us?
The China Effect; when a situation gets so comfortable that the nation doesnt keep up with innovations.
Same thing happened to many Empires. Especially the Ottomans.
Why its called China effect?
@@kushagraverma4943 according to some researchers China mostly copies the west in it’s technological achievements if not always. I can’t list even the majors since I read about it few years ago and I always believe all the reliable sources only 40% of their text, to avoid close minded thoughts. Just read about it on the internet and come up with your own opinion, I don’t give a f*uck.
@@kushagraverma4943 China spent millennia doing the same thing, never modernising.
@@requiem6465 oh thanks
I think using Saudi Arabia as the title issue works better because it reaches a broader audience of people who are more interested in modern geopolitics and economics. If Kraut had presented the video as a history of the Congo kings, it would only have drawn people interested in the history of that one particular region of Africa in that particular time period.
He could definitely have talked more about how Saudi Arabia has taken steps to mitigate their economic weaknesses, and there are more parallels from history he could have drawn from.
I feel like much of the format of this video is a consequence of how CZcams is structured. CZcams algorithms only push videos that meet certain guidelines, and unfortunately that means some videos are shortened so that the algorithm looks favorably upon them.
Notice how Kraut started talking about Saudi Arabia when it was the time where the USA was accusing Saudi Arabia of not producing more Oil and the Biden visit, the subject came out of nowhere, I respected Kraut on how he was unbiased but this video changed stuff.
Those “steps” are useless vanity projects.
100% agree with your comment
@@napolien1310 Take off ur tinfoil hat.
@@duckhawkninja3614 i'd disagree, those steps have produced results, Saudi has become for example a large exporter of metals like steel, aluminium and titanium. they refine these metals quite well, it has also taken steps to become a food producer which over the last 20 years has seen a 50% decrease to food imports. However, this is just a facade in terms of becoming less reliant on oil, the process to refine steel, aluminium and titanium requires lots of power which is solely generated by oil, aluminium as well requires oil coke as a catalyst in the process. the same with farming, which requires an immense amount of water and fertiliser all of which could not be extracted from the sea or made without oil power. The shadow of fossile fuels infects every part of the Saudi economy. Most of their planned projects also require advisors from outside the country, from China or the west once the oil runs out or Saudi stops being such a profitable place to make money these people will leave. This of course isn't to mention to ridiculous projects like that stupid line city.
Quick side note:Portugal had the military power to conquer inland Africa, it didn't have manpower nor the motivation since their goal was India.
No European state had the power to conquer inland until the late 19th century when machine guns and malaria vaccines were invented
Liked the structure of the video. The connections of oil to the slave trade were pretty clear from early on and the title did the work on making those connections.
You can really see how teacher like and academically inclined Terry is by his comments on the "essay" xD. This video was centered around lightly educating people on a situation in an entertaining way, so the structure follows the narrative of an already told, and deeply traumatic history to many, in order to draw them in, and at the end, it just makes the situation easier to understand and therefore digest xD. It wasn't aimed at people who were particularly knowledgeable, or who wanted to understand history without relating somewhat to the contents of said history.
I think many teachers try to teach from a perspective of students already loving the subject, since they also did, and that ends up with frustrated teachers and students. Not that this is particularly the case for Mr Terry here, I wouldn't know either way, but the remarks he gave at the end reminded me of the type of squarely presented format many teachers wanted me to follow, instead of trying to paint a picture with the story, and then revealing the twist that would explain like a title, or section of the text.
I could not have said it any better myself :)
Saudi Arabia is trying so hard to decrease the dependence on oil by attracting tourists and investing in sports and making massive projects like NEOM and The Line, this is all started in 2016 when Mohammed bin Salman introduced the 2030 Vision, however, it is extremely hard to do this but i only hope for a good future to my country
the line is NO investment…
Neom and the line are garbage publicity stunts and terrible projects
Issue is that Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the best personal reputation among foreigners due to hardline sect of Islam the monarchy adheres to. For tourism to thrive, there must be significant reform in religious policy, with has been so tied to the monarchy that will make said reform immensely painful. If you got thousands to spend to go on vacation, why choose Saudi Arabia over a nation that has more liberties for the individuals? Saudi Arabia has a lot of change in store for the future.
But you can already see how "trying so hard" does not really work: If Saudi Arabia just becomes a tourist location, it would certainly loose a lot of its current wealth. Surely, you can make good money with tourism, but e.g. Europeans can always go to Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, etc.. -- how can Saudi Arabia compete with these destinations? Significantly lower wages by exploiting migrant workers. But if this is to be Saudi Arabias main source of income, significantly lower wages means significantly lower average wealth.
And neom and the line? Well, an unchecked dictator having a tremendously stupid idea... This will not be helping.
It all comes down to this: Saudi Arabia has not developed a well-functioning society build upon good education, culture, and politics, and they can't do so because doing so would threaten the power of the monarchy. They never had to, and they won't have to until it's to late, and so they won't.
@@MatjesHunts "They never had to, and they won't have to until it's to late, and so they won't."
Western cope is so f ing cringe.
To talk more about your point about why he named the video about Saudi Arabia deals with the people his community has. I'm a former Patreon member of his (former cuz finances are tough rn), and his community is FILLED with people who are really into geopolitics and modern society. Don't get me wrong, people in his community LOVE history, as seen by many of his videos, but his audience is primarily people interested modern geopolitics (Generally post WW2). Look at his other videos for example: Comparing modern China and India (delves into history), modern India and Pakistan (delves into history), the workings of the Modern Russian Government (delves into history), etc. They all heavily center around the world today, and he uses history to educate and back up his view points. This goes back to one of his central motifs: History does not repeat, it merely rhymes.
Kraut is not a history channel, it's a modern geopolitical channel with a focus on history to back up his views.
I've been a fan of Kraut ever since he left the alt-right, so I remember his channel way back in the day. If you have any questions about this creator, feel free to ask.
I noticed this trend to and i have to say i prefer this Kraut better than the old one and as a history nerd i like learning about the modern geopolitical similarity's to History
Kraut was never alt-right, in fact they tried to ruin his life for going after them. He was just anti-feminist and had a lot of problems with societies organized under Islamic law. But overall he's a pretty standard socdem when it comes to his politics.
Isn't he an Islamophobe or something
love your videos! What's up with your mic?
Real life lore has a video that just came out that serves as a great companion to Kraut's video - its an hour video around Suadi's history and how they got to where they are and some of the massive issues they current face. So, if you wanted a more Saudi focused video that also mentions some of what they try to not end up like the Congo Kingdoms, check out that video too.
If you think about it, Saudi Arabia has two advantages connected to oil. Obviously one of them is their oil reserves, but also their geographic location. Iran has a stranglehold on the Persian Gulf and nothing short of all out war will open it back up, but Saudi Arabia has the infrastructure to transport oil from the Gulf to the Red Sea, thus making any blockade a non-issue.
The second advantage has to do with oil still, so that means Saudi Arabia is still a one trick pony.
Saudi pipeline to Red Sea is completely inadequate to keep exports going in the same scale, if Persian Gulf is blockaded.
Their biggest problem is Russia.
Arab Gulf
The thing is, that neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia really have the power to blockade the trade routes in that region. They don't effectively have the naval power to even safeguard their own coastlines. One of the major things that Western powers give the region is security. The U.S patrols their waterways and helps keep pirates away. Also, the Middle East and North Afriaca is incapable of feeding itself. The Congo at least was able to grow its own food while the Middle East cannot.
It's a clear message but showing it through past events also shows it's very telegraphed, if Saudi Arabia or any country puts all it's economy into one market or good then once that market recedes or becomes irrelevant the whole country will have nothing. Oil is still very valuable for now but it has been heavily criticized, and Saudi Arabia knows it needs a new market or impress people with tourism while they have money and influence before the world can no longer justify raising gas prices.
I can see he oversimplifies the events of Congo selling other africans for profit and not diversifying or taking advantage of what western traders have made use of. I'm not familiar how big the risk of the Portugese were but sure being a valued trade partner is better than starting on bad terms even if Portugal wouldn't have pushed too far inland. Some contrasts, Saudi Arabia has mostly the same opportunities as other developed nations, they're not being offered the compass or wagon wheels they have the same tech as the United States, they just don't have the same home industry or other resources they can rely on. They don't really have unused natural resources empires would invade them for but they have made enemies with many of their strong neighbors who wouldn't mind influencing them. Saudi Arabia is also home to Mecca, it's already an important destination for Muslims while the Congo was just discovered by Europe as they were finding ways to trade with India and made a port with the people there, the Saudis can still work around their relation with other Muslim nations and people for support if they focus. Saudi Arabia knows the wealth from oil isn't going to last and is actively finding new projects to keep wealth coming in, while I believe the Congo thought all they needed were more guns while everyone else controlled the plantations overseas.
Saudi Arabia did not gain its independence from the Ottomans!! Saudi Arabia was not occupied by the Ottomans
It was, look at a map of the Ottoman Empire
@@joemiller947
Ottomans empire ended before the establishment of saudi arabia
@@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273 Yes, I know
@@joemiller947 so your wrong and read a history book Ottoman never ruled the land of Saudi Arabia officially
@@ismailmounsif1109 The Ottomans controlled what is now Mecca and Jeddah as part of the Hejaz vilayet, a fully integrated part of the Ottoman Empire. Mecca and Jeddah are, the last time I checked, both cities in what is now Saudi Arabia
I’m outta school already but. Oh boy how I wish you could’ve been my teacher. I would argue and collide with all my past history teachers. You seem like the best teacher ever🎉 always keeping my interest at its peak. Easily your in my top 5 CZcamsrs. And the only person that is able to educate without making people bored. I would never had thought I would go out of my way to watch history videos 🎉thank you
The Portuguese didn't take over areas of Africa because they didn't have the millitary strength to do so, but because of local diseases like malaria prevented them from doing so.
There is a reason why the scramble for Africa coincided with advances in medicine, specially when it comes to Quinine
I like that you have a vast knowledge of world history, unlike the other reaction channel.
22:15 you left out the fact that the Bin Laden family is one of the most liberal families in the Arab gulf countries. Most of them are educated businesses people who studied and lived in the West, and Osama was the odd one out who turned on his family and called them deviants as he was exiled to Afghanistan
He wasn't exiled, Saudi Arabia wanted him back before he cause more problems, I'm talking in the 90s.
When he was in Sudan his family came and asked him to come back and he refused then his family cuts him off of the family.
the US even funded him as a "freedom fighter" against the soviets
@@napolien1310 lol the top scholars in Saudi Arabia talked against Ossama bin laden in the 90s but wait that against the propaganda the west is trying to feed you
@@latviankhan2989 not really that simple, but people like to simplify it so they can make stupid statements about other things.
I'm glad it wasn't "just a me problem!" I was thinking for most of the video had nothing to do with the title. I figured it may be interesting to a history buff, but to the "every day man," it was quite a disappointment. Great video!
It was likely to get more viewers, since very few people are interested in Kongo compared to Saudi Arabia. But he certainly should have spent more time with Saudi Arabia.
you canot really say "this thing you are familiar with is likely to go along simialrly to that other thing you dont know about".
The format used is also not unique to this video - where you talk up the similar thing and then just a few connection to the primary thing and let the thing talked up do the work, if I am explain that correctly.
It's a shame that the first part of the video didn't go into the Islamic slave trade in Africa, which arguably still continues to some degree.
How would mentioning the Islamic slave trade strengthen the overall point of the video? It's not a video about the history of African slavery
@@joemiller947 It would have given perspective on Saudi Arabia, which only ended slavery in the 1950s
@@ronmaximilian6953how is slavery still existing today?
@@Nicola.M7 in theory slavery is illegal everywhere in the world, but Gulf States have something called the "Kafala System" in which they invite foreign workers (mostly from Asia) to their land and them take their passports and force them to sign contracts in which they can't do anything without express permission of their employer, which is slavery in everything but name (similar to the contracts signed by recently freed Negro slaves in Southern states after de American Civil War)
To be honest,as someone living in Saudi Arabia alot of what has been said about it is incorrect
True and most of what he's saying is outdated even though he made the video recently
stop coping, dictatorships are doomed to collapse
And saudi arabia is going away from just an oil economy via the 2030 vision
@@ogluigi
I love how many people bring up vison 2030. Almost as if you have eaten up the propaganda without looking at its... i think the polite term is "clusterf*ck" of an execution.
@@ogluigi what has come of it so far?
As a portuguese man, this Kraut video hits hard.
I think that showing the significance of the current situation is more pressing than what happened in the past. Sure. We can use history as a 'guide' of sorts, however, as a means of finding parallel situations.
Hence, the matters of our lifetimes will matter the most to us.
Hi Mr. Terry
love your content by the way.
I'm a Saudi national and being an academic I believe I can give a good view of my country's future in light of @Kraut's opinion. The similarities between Saudi Arabia and the Congo kingdom are fair, however, he oversimplified the matter in a way that would make his argument at best misinformed. Saudi has several advantages that the Congo Kingdom didn't have, I will list the top three in my opinion:
1- Fossil and mineral wealth: Saudi has the 2ed largest proven reserves of crude oil in the world accompanied by the largest oil processing plant in the world gives Saudi the edge over all its competitors (this means that even if prices go down, Saudi holds the lows prices of production per-barrel in the world at 2.7 USD pb according to the Saudi minister of energy). As for mineral wealth, Saudi Arabia has the largest mineral deposits in the Middle East. In the west of the country, the Arabian Shield is a major source of precious and basic minerals such as gold(Wadi Fatima gold mines have been chugging gold since before Islam and still giving tel this day!) silver, copper, zinc, chromium, manganese, tungsten, lead, tin, Aluminum and iron. And although many countries have similar mineral deposits on their lands, most of them (Congo Kingdom as an example) lack the political stability and financial power to extract it, unlike Saudi which in the past 8 years alone has begun several operations throughout the kingdom to extract and use/export these untapped minerals.
2- Dominant culture, history and religion: Arabian history(and by default religion and culture) is different from most of the human historical backgrounds we see today in the simple fact that Arabia has never been conquered by a foreign nation or culture. Unlike The Congo Kingdom, which adopted neighbouring religions and cultures, Saudi Arabia, the current heartland of the Arab world, has been an exporter of both. This gives the country and its people a unique set of beliefs and attitudes that makes them united and at the same time it gives Saudi the ability to project its soft power all across the middle east and as far away as Indonesia. This accompanied by vast reserves of wealth makes Saudi the perfect trading/investment partner for these nations, we see this in the investments being made by Saudis all across the middle east, north Africa and Asia. Even in countries where Muslims don't form the majority of their people, Saudi has been successful in creating and sustaining trade and finance with these partners. For example, the Saudi Muslim representative of the Saudi Investment Fund met and signed an agreement with the Hindu company Daawat (which controls 22% of India's rice production) in the holy city of Amritsar in India, to buy 29% of the company's assets, a move that shock even the most moderate of Hindus in India due to the recent tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India. This ability to form and sustain trade with others across oceans and continents was something the Congo Kingdom simply lacked since they only had one trading partner and that was the Portuguese. One more point to add here regarding religion is religious tourism, Saudi holds the two holiest cities in Islam (Makkah and Madinah) to which two Islamic traditions are practised throughout the year, Hajj And Umrah. In the past, Saudi didn't really capitalize much off of religious tourism to these two cities making on average about 22 billion USD a year off of them. this All changed with The Crown Prince MBS Vision2030 plan which involves increasing the revenue of these two cities from 22B a year to 350B in 2030(this year they are projecting to make 52B) a goldmine of its own which the Congo Kingdom simply didn't have a parallel to.
3.- A vision for the future: as we have seen above, The Crown Prince MBS Vision2030 has set a goal of lowering Saudi dependency on oil from almost 95% in 1990 to as low as 20% of the Kingdoms' GDP by 2030, a plan that seems to be working since Saudi has dropped its dependency on oil income from the date of its announcement from 67% of its GDP in 2016 to 46% in 2023. Unfortunately, neither The Kingdom of Kongo of the past nor its present manifestation the country of Angola have any such plans for the future.
There are many other points of differences between these two great kingdoms, however, I believe the comparison between them is unfair due to the differences in their time in history and geopolitical circumstances. I hope for peace and prosperity for both and indeed all humans and nations on our beautiful blue planet. I hope you would forgive me for any mistakes in my reply, English is not my first language.
Thank you.
You're an academic who just said that Arabia has never been conquered by a foreign kingdom? It's like saying Indian princely states were never conquered by the British because they were still ruled by locals, it's misleading at best
When one compares the Congo's violent dilemma (be slavers or be enslaved) to the Saudi's choice, you could make an argument that the foreign backed coups could be an additional violent incentive for the people in power in Saudi Arabia to go along with the plans of people seeking their oil. However, I do not know the timeline and visibility of foreign backed coups and therefore their potential impact on the Saudi's complicity. The 1945 deal was signed on a ship of war, which could be indicative of the tone surrounding the conversations between nations. Not to absolve Saudi Arabia of an wrong doing or to remove all their agency, but we can see what happens throughout the 20th century to nations that try to resist U.S. capital interests.
A reaction to Kraut's Manifest Destinies would be sweet.
When he says that the Congolese didn't invest in agriculture, was it also perhaps due to the lack of good arable land there? Jungle soil isn't that good for farming grains from what I remember
An interesting point I had always considered, before the industrialization and mass adoption of gunpower, how did these kingdoms seem to the Europeans. In the 15th Century a Kingdom with a capital of 60k would have seemed like a formidable distant realm than potential protectorate as was seen in 19th Century.
No offense, but I think you need a new microphone. Your speaking repeatedly keeps cutting off into silence mid sentence.
بلدكم الي رايح فيها 👞🇺🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🥾
Why does his talking keep cutting out? The video plays fine but when mr terry talks it cuts out parts
I bingewatched Kraut's videos when he was still "Kraut&Tea".
He disappeared for a while and I haven't really checked his channel since then. Perhaps I should give it a try again.
You should totally watch his video about Noam Chomsky. Just saying, it may be illuminating for the american audience.
It's a fair point which Saudi is relying on oil. I see the way he describes KSA current situation is hateful and filled with ignorance to the fact that Saudi Arabia and UAE helped many surrounding countries so stable its inner state, As Yemeni I can confirm. The entire area was dominated in wars and political issues. And If it's not for Saudi Arabia, Syria wouldn't be able to re-enter the Arab League Summit. Besides, Saudi Arabia now is investing so much in fields of technology and global leadership.
Anyone else notice the background song is the same song they used for the halo 3 believe trailer.
19:00 and environs...
Is temporal proximity to exploitation a sufficient explanation for poor outcome? Poland, Korea, and China would seem to be more contemporary examples of horrific exploitation that didn't ruin society.
Although I think the *ending* of the slave economy was a catalyst for much of the trouble in Africa, I think the clan structures that arose out of polygamy and the blood fueds that those clans engendered is more direct a cause for the biggest troubles in the region.
those other countries have stability nearby (Poland) or enforced (SK) security or enough going on within the borders (China) to fair much better - that said, China has some issues that are going to be hard to overcome, but those are more based around choice they made in the past coming back to bite them in the butt.
Love the kraut reactions
18:18 "Hey hey, people. Sseth here."
you have mic issue
I quite like the sructure and it's kinda clever that it explains the two periods at once. When the video goes truogh the history of Kongo it throghly explains what happened, why, what followed and why. Then when he speaks about saudi arabia he only has to list everything that is happening, and because they are word for word the same things, none of the why's have to be axplained again. The picture is simplistic, not everything is exactly the same in both of the countries, but for the point being made, he frontloads all the explanation of the saudies to the history lessin on Kongo, which is probably the real intent of the video.
Your mic is a little off whenever it's just you.
no point in commenting on it because there are alot of things that are wrong about it the person who made this video needs more research alot more
he clearly didn’t get info of the 2030 vision what was established back in 2015 focusing on not being dependent on Oil
True most of the video he is reacting to is talking about Africa then a little bit about not just Saudi Arabia but the gulf countries and most of it is outdated
And how exactly is the execution of that plan going?
@@jorenvanderark3567 Very well
@Joren van der Ark Pretty good actually. Education has been and is being updated to include topics like AI. New jobs are made and the privet sector is seeing new business all the time. Health care is massively being updated and changed every year. Honestly is sometimes too much and too fast of changes.
@2saisai and what funds that healthcare and education?
I once asked a Saudi guy what the Saudis will do when the oil runs out ?
The response was well that's the end of human civilization, cars planes factories and electricity will Paresh.
In a long about way, I see what the point he's trying to make. Hopefully they don't go down that way.
I actually hope they do. There is no value for humanity in preserving the current system at all.
@Alias_Anybody and what about the people of that country!
@@malconsak
A system change doesn't mean all the people just die.
@@Alias_Anybodyto make it easy for you, it won't be going that way, oil will still be relevant at least to 2070, and that's a lot of time to make changes. And if you weren't living under a rock, changes in Saudi Arabia are happening right now.
@@Alias_Anybody hahahaha it shows your hatered if you want people to fall into poverty
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do you support the genocide of the uyghurs?
🇸🇦 🤝 🇨🇳
Buddy how can you get rid of oil 🛢?
Saudi Arabia is currently trying its best to maintain high oil prices while it is carrying out a massive program funded by high oil prices to create diversified streams of income that will cut its reliance on oil and at the same time VERY BELATEDLY upgrade or create infrastructure. The question is if they have enough time, and also if the current regime will survive long enough to see the transition.
They have used various methods to maintain high prices eg by keeping the region in turmoil through the actions of their proxies like Al Qaeda and lSlS and through fomenting such turmoil as the "Arab Spring" and by hard funding anti "Green" propaganda in places like the US and Europe in order to maintain demand for oil.
Ignorance on a new level just few google searches of gulf state economy will teach him everything about what is changing in their economy
Terry I think you point out the weaknesses in Kraut video well. He went into a lot of detail about the slave trade history of Congo and the economic analogy is fair, however he oversimplified it and just said Saudi and the rest the GCC countries are the same and they will face the same destiny
As a citizen of Saudi and GCC citizen acknowledge the risk of over dependence on oil & gas but beg differ that we not doing anything about it or have achieved anything that de risk our dependence on oil & gas. I can go on in a lot of detail of what has been achieved thus far and what is planned to be done in the future to diversify away our economies
الفديو الأساسي له اهداف سياسية وفقط عشان لا يخلون السياح يفكرون بـ السعودية لو بحثوا شوي كانوا شافوا استثمرات دول الخليج في تنويع اقتصادها وهذي مشكلة ما تخفى علينا
ركزوا فينا و نسوا مشاكلهم على عموم مشكور انك تحاول تنشر الوعي بينهم بس الأغلب داخل عشان يسب و يشتم و ينشر الدجل بس .
The problem is that many of the efforts to diversify the economies of Gulf states have only resulted in more indirect ways to benefit from their use of oil and natural gas. An example of this is metal refinement and processing. This process takes enormous amounts of energy, and it's generally done where energy is cheap. If the Oil and Natural gas industry dies, so do many of these industries that depend on oil and natural gas as a consequence.
Unless the Gulf states are able to make the overwhelming majority (think 90% or so) of their economies to be independent of oil in the next 2-3 decades, they will suffer a huge economic collapse, and the resulting collapse will lower overall gdp and investment.
Even completely independent industries will suffer due to lack of local income that can maintain infrastructure, government services, and internal security.
Attempts to diversify have in the majority of cases been mismanaged stunts
Is an assisted technically wrong because the Gulf states they know that the oil have alamut and will end and they try now to invest in other part of economy
I would've come for any topic
To summarize:
What I came for: See how Saudi Arabia will fail
What I got: A brief history of the Congo and how there are similarities to Saudi Arabia
Not to say it was clickbait, but I think using Saudi Arabia over the Congo slave trade and how it can provide context to how Saudi Arabia will fail is much better as it gives a sort of relevance in today's world. I think he shows just how important history is in understanding the world today, and how we could learn from it.
I am not sure if the Kingdom of Saud is doomed, but I would not want live in the Middle East when the oil runs out.
The only issue I see this being an allegory for the kingdom of Congo is the lack of a modern, wallstreet investment system. Hyrdocarbon profits will dwindle with time, but there is NOT a lack of investing in a countries stabilization, its going to be a pullback of wealth distribution. The Royal Family will have the cash to maintain and stranglehold the lower casts of society while their foreign investments, and US-provided military aide, at least maintain their status-quo.
When Slavery/colonialism was around, it was was a matter of a system. The world has definitely shrunk between the 19th and 21st century. So while the analogy is accurate, the time line is not.
I came to it because of a similar video by wendover
The thing is Kraut has done videos on slave trade specifically so the objective with this video is not to explain slave trade but to explain why Saudi is doomed in a very hands on way. You cannot explain it simpler than Kraut does I think because everyone understands what a total sh-tshow Africa has been since the colonial era whereas people think that Saudi and these places have some sort of future beyond the carbon era.
went because it said Saudi Arabia but wasn’t bothered by the intro
why is mr Terry kinda off energetic nowadays.
Blue jay new video
Did you seen 2030 vision?
Saudi Arabia now makes more money off the Muslim Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca which is an annual one week event) than they off oil.
That is not truth you idiots they new have more oil and gas and new they build solar energy
A blatant lie
@@crocodileguy4319 go search for your self now they are now built solar energy field Don't underestimate them the saudis
kraut has a posh accent, Tonk has a posh accent. Same person?!
No, Kraut is German, you can hear some germanisms in the way he speeks.
the country that has almost zero taxes cheap oil food low inflation free health care, education in all stages even collages is free ... and now developing one of the biggest nuclear power plants on the planet
i see a rising nation not a declining one like the great USA
Lmao US declining while the projection in the next 9 years US economy will grow from 26 trillions dollars to 39 trillions
HA krauts finally made it here
He equated the Saudis to the Emiratis- the racist generalization isn’t lost
I want more kraut reactions
GOD BLESS SAUDI ARABIA ♥️
When talking about the middle east one should never expect people from outside the region to fully grasp the picture, especially if it's Europeans or Americans.
Richest people in the world?😅
I'm sorry but I have to object here. Saudi citizens distrust each other and are fractured!!???? Are you kidding me! This person clearly has never actually had any experience with saudis or saudi society in real life, only through hypothesis and books. Ask any saudi they would say they are very happy with their country, and they love the king and Muhammad bin Salman. In fact many of those who have criticism inside the kingdom actually criticize them for modernising to much! Furthermore, saudi arabia is not dependant on oil, or rather it wont be. It has been focusing on diversification of the economy for close to a decade now! It's a shame these videos get millions of views and it's full of lies..
You are correct, but it's ok. There are hundreds of videos speaking about the collapse of the US dollar and they're just as wrong about the US dollar as the video about Saudi Arabia. However clicks and views don't follow what is true! they usually follow what is interesting and appealing.
Saudis are not to be believed they don`t fool me that they`re happy no way.
@@Movingforward2000
I can tell you , as a saudi myself with first hand experience of my social and mental status, that I pity you. poor soul
@@Movingforward2000 lol, so basically you're just so narrowminded that you can't believe someone has different values than you. I have spoken to Saudis both inside and outside of Saudi Arabia and they have nothing but good to say 99% of the time. I have also been to Saudi Arabia Have. Have you ever actually met a Saudi lol. You think a whole country is lying, you would rather believe that than believe that someone can have different values than you?
@@Movingforward2000 as a Saudi we are very happy, proud and look forward to a very bright future ان شاء الله
Yeah you using Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 as a click bait
Stay assured that we are very proud native saudis we have our culture values and religion and most importantly our leadership and people
I recommend you study the history of human kind because your people cannot understand what is a man and what is a woman nowadays lol
Is this a bot or real person?
@@zombieoverlord5173 just because we don’t live like you people in the west doesn’t mean that your better or worse it just means that we’re different we arabs are tribal people who lived for centuries under a king that is our way of living plus factor in religious beliefs
@mr d Literally everything you just described could easily be attributed to almost every European country for most of history. Even into the 20th century. Saudi Arabia's position is untenable especially with an Autocrat in power. I don't like this whitewashing of Saudi Arabia as some kind of average, relatively happy almost utopian state instead of a tolitalitarian theocratic regime that belongs in the middle ages and is currently overreliant on a single resource
You can argue with me after defining what (woman) stands for
Don’t spray your garbage thinking over everybody else accept the fact that you got no history nor culture you have no basic values to live by
Saudi Arabia history and tribes go back more than 4000 years
Yea I am bot just go educate your self
Gays … haha
I think this video did not worth your time to review. It is just lazy and poorly executed. Since he didn’t not do any research regarding recent projects in Saudi Arabia the correlation between the two events becomes laughable to say the least. How would he compare dishonorable things such as slavery to a very important source of energy?! I strongly do believe that this video is a total garbage that filled with biased propaganda and misinformation. Btw I am not a SAUDI
Slavery and Energy are compatible because the market for fossil fuel energy will die as time goes on, just as slavery did.
That's the entire point of the video
@@joemiller947 and the diminishing of fossil fuel industry is going to damage Saudis only!?? You do know that almost every product is made of fossil fuel and raw materials that will eventually disappear! His video is filled with propaganda. He did zero research on the current Saudi’s projects. Maybe his point about Saudis is reasonable if we are in 80s but not now.
@@joemiller947 Are you honestly comparing slaves to fuel? I wouldn’t have that.
@@Hwje1111 Yes, because they're both commodities. I'm not comparing the morality between them, but I am comparing the economics around them.
Oil is being made scarcer and scarcer by the day, as well as being made obsolete by alternative forms of energy. This process only accelerates and without any ability to reverse it. Also, more people are aware of the problems with burning hydrocarbons, and steps are being made to reduce their use.
Slavery is similar in these regards. Slavery is only profitable in pre-industrialized societies and was quickly made obsolete by machinery. The moral issues with slavery also accelerated its decay as an institution.
@@joemiller947 You do understand that slaves and oil are two vastly different things by themselves right? Aside from morality, Oil is a resource from the ground made into a variety of things, not just transportation and energy, but also plastics, paint, cleaning, reesins, materials like foams and fibers alongside agricultural products aswell. Not to mention syntethic rubber. A slave is practically only as useful as his or her skills in something like, working a farm or teaching some bloke’s daugther how to read. Not to mention slaves are practically a biodegradable and renwable resource because they are human beings while oil is not a living thing. Its very unlikelt that even with the phasing out of hydrocarbona that oil will be made obsolete.
And slavery was made OBSELETE by industrialization, not made profitable.
The part of the future economy he does not adress is that they the Saudia Arabia is diversion it economy bye investing into foroan economies if the investments are big enough which they are doing a great amount of they use this money smart it they can and are already moving away from oil note that this process is slow and they still realy on oil but I don't think the future of Saudi Arabia is doomed however it will be hard to manage it
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Kruat is so unbelievable bad at history, no wonder his modern geopolitical take are nonsensical
Kraut: "Here's a video about Saudi Arabia and how it might need to course correct."
Me: "Hey cool, that's new and interesting."
Kraut: "So anyway the Europeans are evil."
Me: *Closes video and goes outside*
Lool actually he was talking about Africans selling other africans he never talked about European bad
That's hilarious m8, you imagine ghosts and stay ignorant
I think one factor to consider is that since the Saudis are Muslim, they may try to act as merchants by selling hydrocarbons to other countries as Prophet Muhammad (saww) was a merchant himself
Saudi owns you.
2:02 no it didnt.
Constantinople had nothing to do with muslim control of the trade routes. They ALREADY controlled all the routes to India. Look at a map. It doesnt matter who controls Constantinople if the whole middle east is controlled by muslims anyway. Look at a map.
18:28 you yourself start generalising here meting the answer into "becouse colonialism". Where as you yourself are asking the wrong question. "Why is Africa poor?" Is the wrong question to ask. "Why is Europe rich?" Is the right one.
Both Europe and Africa started at the same level as all humans did. But it was something that happened that created welath and development. There is no such thing as "pushing back development" you cant push back something that isnt there. If nothing happens people stay at the same spot.
I have to say that he's absolutely right in his analysis of Saudi Arabia and I didn't need the analogy of the Congo Kingdom to know that but it was quite interesting to me since it's a piece of history I haven't spent as much time learning about. I have a close friend who used to do IT contract work all over the world and he ended up doing work in SA and he described to a T exactly what is talked about in this video. Even before he told me his stories of persona experiences there I could look at what the country was doing and recognize that they were going to be in deep trouble at the end of the hydro carbon era. The people and the country waste money on lavish lifestyles like drunken sailors waste money on whores in a sea port. The sons of the wealthy will literally abandon super cars in the desert when they break down and for many years the royal yacht of the Saudi king was the largest in the world and the size of a small cruise ship. They've grown fabulously wealthy off of oil but they haven't invested that money in literally ANY other industry to sustain their economy. And outside of oil there are very few natural resources of value on the Saudi Peninsula. Given how arrogant their oil wealth has made them and the way they have been jacking around the world's economy most of my life with OPEC and oil embargos and production quotas I will frankly be glad (if I should be lucky to live that long) to see them return to living in tents in the desert. They've had way too much wealth and power for far too long and they've manipulated the rest of the world for quite long enough IMO.
Hateful wishful thinking. With the will of god you will be disappointed with us prospering even more
@@aldeweesh nice try troll.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I only see you as the troll here , but your comment made laugh to much ignorance and hate lady .
@@aldeweesh It's strange how the will of God is only capable of making Muslims living on top of massive oil and gas reserves rich, whereas the Muslims that don't have that luxury are some of the Earth's poorest people.
How is my country causing you trouble because of Oil!!?
So you want OPEC to produce more Oil so it become cheap so you Americans or Europeans can buy it!!? Create a car and sell it more expensive!! Alright how about you give us your weapon, farming, irrigation...etc technologies for the cheap Oil, you going to accept it!!? This is laughable.
And plz tell me the location of the luxury car left behind in the desert because it broke down, watching too much tiktok I guess.
Working with the west against the USSR and what did we get from the west!!? More demands, wars like in Iraq (USA and Britain) Libya (France wants that Oil in Libya and the USA) Syria (the USA who always talks about freedom and democracy and helping the citizens and what did you do in Syria!?).
Westerners getting angry because of some expensive stuff for a year or two how laughable.
Canada and the USA have one of the largest Oil reserves 5th and 9th respectively why not invest more in Oil and sell it for cheap for the Europeans!? Because you don't think like that you think about money and that's why the US Oil companies don't invest more because they will be going bankrupt.
But actually Saudi is not solely dependent on oil this is idiotic Saudi actually huge supporter of new energy 😅
What really annoys me is the Arab slave trade is always ignored, it is never mentioned anywhere, but it lasted a thousand years longer than the Atlantic slave trade and slavery was only abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962 and in Oman in 1970. There is a deafening silence everywhere about this vile subject, 3/4 of the video was about slavery but not one word about the Saudi Arabian slave trade, it was all about the European trade, there was mention about the disfunction of the Saudi nation and disregard about basic human rights but not a word about Saudi Arabian contribution to enslaving people and how that effected their society.
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Kraut videos are very biased propaganda
thats youtube for you xD However as long as you know it you can watch it you just should not take everthing as granted
Its not. He just does not bring up vision 2030 because he does not fill his videos with empty BS that doesn't go much further than some very impressive presentations.
He's a flawed creator for sure. He has issues with bias. But he is not a propagandist.
@@jorenvanderark3567 lol what are you talking about
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I like the guy, but his history videos tend to be just.. Well inaccurate or mostly just political theory
(which is fine and interesting, but it does guide him occasionally on paths that are kinda just.. well not history would be the most charitable way of putting it)
We are already seeing Saudi Arabia attempt to diversify, but that has mostly been into tourism which is held back by it's culture being... let's say not supportive of the lifestyle choices of the people wealthy enough to pay that much. Nor by the arrests and assassinations.
I do get why they are trying tourism. It worked for parts of north Africa and Saudi Arabia doesn't exactly have much else to work with. Even it's sand isn't construction grade so they have to import sand and water to a desert for concrete. They have gold, copper and iron, but mining is not going to make their economy thrive. They have to build something to attract foreign investment.
Their new projects have failed to attract investors it`s simply not a country that western people wants to invest in.
Saudi Arabia is not doomed and will never be and also I will be honest United States is doomed in right now at this moment so I truly want you to restate the title because it’s clickbait
Would you like to elaborate on that?
Sat in UAE watching this. No comment
And here is why I disagree with the vid, Cuz while there is now Electric vehicles, It wont change things much, you will still need fossil fuel. You can have all the E cars in the world but the Military are no hipsters. & thy will never stop depending on Diesel fuel mainly to power their heavy armor & all ground mechanized units. & Militaries are "extremely" wasteful on their fuel consumption.
Cuz when it comes to choosing Power vs Economy, No military force in the world is gonna sacrifice power for being more enviro friendly.
its always gonna be "I don't care how much fuel my tanks consume as long as thy overpower my enemy's tanks. I'm ok with that. And we have tax payers money to buy more oil for our units anyway, & if we don't , we can just go to war to conquer & steal other nation's fuel. We do have guns afterall."
Besides Saudi Arabia has a very good food industry & thy export their food very successfully . especially Dates.
but the oil will run out
Crap
Yeah saudi arabia is crap.
Esau/Saudi Arabia is the beast nation God warns about✔Revelation 13:15 that' the *✔Beast* that *✔speaks* that who ever bows down to it and takes it's mark burn in the of fire forever. *QURAN* ✔Surah Naml verse 82 we we read: And when the word shall come to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a *✔Beast* out of the earth who will *✔speak* to them, because people did not believe in Our Ayat with assurance. ✔Ezekiel 25:13-14
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon ✔Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from ✔Teman; and they of ✔Dedan shall fall by the sword.✔Teman and ✔Dedan are located in Saudi Arabia. All cities in Arabia!
All cities in Arabia!
The burden against ✔Dumah” (Isaiah 21:11)
“The burden against ✔Arabia” (Isaiah 21:13)
“All the glory of ✔Kedar will fail” (Isaiah 21:16)
Isaiah 13:1 13 The ✔burden of ✔Babylon
Isaiah 63:1 1Who is this coming from ✔Edom, from ✔Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
Isaiah 21:9 9Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground
Lamentations 4:21
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of ✔Edom, that dwellest in the land of ✔Uz
واضح فيديو ذو اجندة
موتوا بغيضكم يا ملاعين
It's not hate if it's factual, it's back to camels with you.
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@@crocodileguy4319 Clear video with an agenda Die with your hate, you damned
This is very interesting! Thank you for the issue!
I like your pic.
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