SNEAKO - August 02, 2022Why The Oil Arabs Are Unstoppable
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about Saudi Arabia's $500 billion linear future city, Neom, and why it's the city of the future. The crown of the kingdom's Vision 2030 diversification program is undoubtedly the crown jewel of the crown prince's plan to develop the private sector and create new jobs.
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Imagine a traditional city and consolidating its footprint,
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The line's communities are organized in three dimensions,
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What the hell does that have to do with Neom, bro?
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Look at them putting, like, nice, inspirational music next to the new world.
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Being this person who's passionate about nature and technology all at the same time.
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I see all these little plans happening and becoming alive.
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so we gotta live in a box so we are easier to control.
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People, get your money up and open up your mind.
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Exactly, Sevens. You get it, bro. You really do get it.
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Saudi Arabia's linear future city, Neom Explained.
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The crown of the kingdom's Vision 2030 diversification program is undoubtedly Neom,
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All the oil money is being spent on a brick wall civilization.
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in which humanity progresses without compromising the health of the planet.
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Hello, and welcome back to our channel, Future Planet.
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Via Mohammed bin Salman announced the launch of the nation's first futuristic
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and fully automated business zone, Neom, in 2017.
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Let's take a look at what is being promised in this 500-
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100 billion dollar city, and why Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pushing for its construction.
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Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 outlines $1.8 trillion in investment in infrastructure,
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education, housing, and healthcare, over 10 years in a bid to develop the private sector
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The goals of Vision 2030 are to enhance the effectiveness of Saudi Arabia
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in improving the quality of life for its citizens,
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increase the nation's income, and diversify the economy by creating new industries.
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The new city, Neom, is named from a combination-
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Bro, this is a pretty good ad, I'm not gonna lie, it's a little convincing, but this is, this is, this is scary.
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For new, and the Arabic term for future, covering a total area of over 26,500 square kilometers,
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Neom will exist entirely outside the confines of the current Saudi judicial system,
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and governed by an autonomous legal system that investors will draft up.
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This high-tech business hub is to be located in the Tabuk province in the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia,
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The region has been selected because of its relatively mild climate.
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The project is expected to generate 380,000 jobs,
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Wow, that's a lot of jobs, and I like this music.
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...8 billion US dollars to the kingdom's GDP by 2030.
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The goal of the project is to demonstrate that the kingdom has the-
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You guys like this? There's a lot of W's here, bro.
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...capacity to develop large-scale urban centers-
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But do you see it? Like, this is making it look really cool and futuristic as shit,
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even as it continues to produce a majority of its energy needs through oil and gas.
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The future city is being designed to maximize the use of renewable energy,
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Initial plans for the city include drone taxis,
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a Jurassic Park-style amusement park, and a giant artificial moon that lights up night.
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...reports state that the futuristic city-state is being built using artificial intelligence,
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They're gonna use the climate to make you believe in this shit!
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...the city have said that they would provide bullet trains and a hyperloop for transportation,
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...but residents would be encouraged to use bicycle.
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Neom's official website, which seems like something out of a sci-fi novel,
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...claims that the first phase of the megaterritory will be completed by 2025.
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Neom will consist of three major regions, namely Oxagon, Trojena, and the Line.
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According to the Neom website, Oxagon will be a new paradigm where people, industries,
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...and technology come together in harmony with nature.
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To be located in the southwest of the new city, Oxagon will host an integrated port and
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logistics hub located on the Red Sea close to the Suez Canal.
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As well as a hydrogen project and modular building construction factory, the district will
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house the previously announced data center, developed in partnership with the Fast Energy
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Neom definition means future, I saw already, Chad. Thank you, though.
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...Gon will be the catalyst for economic growth and diversity in Neom and the Kingdom.
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Further meeting our ambitions under Vision 2030, said Prince Salman.
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It will contribute to Saudi Arabia's regional trade and commerce and support creating a new
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focal point for global trade flows. I am pleased to see that the business end of-
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Look what they're doing in the Middle East and then look what they're doing in China,
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the type of advancement they have. The only advancements that we have in America are just
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adding more pronouns and adding more genders and adding more sexualities and adding more
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letters to LGBTQIA. That's our only advancements. But look at what they're, look how we're falling
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behind, yo! Development have started on the ground, and we look forward to the city's rapid expansion.
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Trojena, an all-year-round ski village and nearly two-mile artificial freshwater lake.
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And the vault. It's like a vertical village within the mountain with a fusion of technology,
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entertainment and hospitality facilities. Trojena expects to attract 700,000 visitors and 7,000
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permanent residents by 2030. It was also claimed that the project would create 10,000 jobs and
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add 800 million US$. No, don't let this inspirational music fool you. Vanessa donated five visits to
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Stiko. I think it's a good thing. Think about it more like the time travel improvement is so good.
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No, no, Vanessa, Vanessa, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're spam bots in the chat for Vanessa,
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bro. You could go to the Saudi fucking brick wall house. I'm, I'm, I'm, I would rather be outside.
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...$ to the Saudi economy. The line. The crown prince labeled the city project as a
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civilizational plan that puts humans first. The line is crafted as a linear city for 1 million
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people running 170 kilometers long with a width that would be walkable in five minutes.
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The line is not designed to be a conventional city, but a futuristic one. A city's usual
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amenities such as schools, hospitals and gardens will be carefully crafted. The entire Neom area,
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including the line, will be a free trade zone with its own tax structure and an autonomous legal
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system. As mentioned before, the line will run in a 100. You see how he just
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walked over that really, an autonomous legal system, 70 kilometers straight. Is that what
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he said earlier? The system as mentioned before, the line will run. They skip over all the weird
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parts and just like blast inspirational music. Like motivational fucking yoga music. In a 170
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kilometers straight line through the desert. Ali Shihabi, a former banker now on Neom's advisory board,
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says, the line will be built in stages, block by block. People say this is some crazy project
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that's going to cost gazillions. But it's going to be built module by module, in a manner that meets
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demand. He further explains that much like Barcelona's traffic-free super blocks,
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Barcelona is like the best design city I've ever seen, I gotta be honest.
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Each square will be self-sufficient, and contained amenities such as shops and schools so that anything
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people need will be a five-minute walk or cycle away. When complete, travel along the line will
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be via hyperspeed trains with the longest journey never more than 20 minutes. The extensive development
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of plans for Neom have been welcomed by observers worldwide, who have noted that the first city will
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serve as a remarkable attraction for visitors from all over the world. Neom is a project with a larger
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objective. As the world moves towards a non-oil-based future, Saudi Arabia, as the largest oil producer,
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finds its economy threatened, unless it finds alternate sources of wealth creation. Global
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trade and tourism would be the key areas for Saudi's new economy. Neom, backed by the line as the first
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fully-automated city could emerge as the leading global destination. Moving forward, let's talk about
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some fascinating features of this mega city. Neom will be a regional powerhouse in water
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production and storage, anchored on water desalination. Neom's water distribution network
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will be connected entirely through an advanced internet of water infrastructure, delivering
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high-quality drinking water and recycled water across its network while removing wastewater.
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Recycled water? Smart irrigation, leak detection, and water quality monitoring will be controlled in
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real-time. Experts claim that Neom will be one of the world's leading green hydrogen producers,
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as it is one of few places in the world where it can be produced competitively,
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and in large quantities. Saudi Arabia's master plan is to increase non-oil-related revenue and attract
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foreign investment. This is what's happening, bro. They're running out of oil to dig.
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They've been fracking the earth like they've been fracking, just fracking and fracking and fracking,
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and now they're like, how do we make more money, uh, people?
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...investment with interesting proposals to stimulate economic growth.
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The GIGA project is part of the Crown Prince's vision of a greener Saudi Arabia.
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The plans of the zero cars, zero streets, and zero car emissions have drawn the most attention.
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The greener future has not been easy, but we are not avoiding tough choices.
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We reject the false choice between preserving the economy and protecting the
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Cap! Cap! All you do is dig up oil and frack the earth, and now you're a fucking climate change.
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Oh, but he's smiling, so I believe him. Get the fuck up out of here, bro.
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...environment. The city infrastructure is expected to cost between $100 to $200 billion U.S. dollars.
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Nia means evil in Hebrew? Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, boom, boka.
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Investments are planned to be drawn from the U.S. $500 billion dollars allocated for Nia.
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The Public Investment Fund, or PIF, which is the Saudi's foreign wealth fund and local and global
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investors over ten years. Well, the city's infrastructure and services will be arranged in
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three layers. The top layer will be the pedestrian layer, supported by two underground layers.
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It will be followed by the service layer of physical infrastructure. And further below,
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the service layer will be this fine layer for transportation. The high-speed transit is being
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designed to reach people within 20 minutes anywhere in the city. Moreover, construction of the project's
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first phase has already begun. Neon Bay, some hotel complexes, and luxurious apartments were completed
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in 2019. And the Neon Bay airport was inaugurated. A massive complex of palaces-
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Wow, little girl, that means good. Cube said, this is, uh, this is that agenda 2030 population
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control stuff, LMFAO. The logo is literally a pentagram. Why the fuck do they always make it
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so obvious? Because this is what I heard. They just put it right in your face so that it's not
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a conspiracy. If it's right in front of you all the time, then it's not a conspiracy because they
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told you. And they get to separate any empathy and they get to separate any responsibility from it.
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But he, and then he said it helps people wake up though. Not really. A lot of people are like,
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Yeah! I like the inspiration of da-da-da! Da-da-da!
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The Saudi king, prince, and royal family members has also been started.
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The city would be run totally on smart city technologies. Robots will play a key role in
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security, logistics, home delivery, and care provision. So with that, our video has come to an
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end. Now let's watch how this young prince sees power in Saudi Arabia. This is the guy who's talking
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about climate change and developing this. Made by Vox. Shout out to Vox.
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And this one, the one doing all the hand kissing, is his younger cousin.
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He's being forced to give up his power and to pass the crown prince title to his younger cousin,
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a guy who's almost half his age. This is Mohammed bin Salman.
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And that's the guy who's in charge of this Neom thing. He said the Saudi prince chops up journalists
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who disagree with him. Why would anyone trust this guy with the whole city? Exactly. If he's chopping
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up journalists just because he's smiling all the time and kissing hands doesn't make him a good
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person. This is what politicians do. They kiss a couple of babies' heads and then nuke a Haiti,
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a Haitian village, bro. It's just like... In the West, we just call him MBS. And since this moment in June,
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he's consolidated power so swiftly and so thoroughly that in Saudi Arabia, they just
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As crown prince, MBS will become king. And with all of this new power, MBS is seeking to assert his
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dominance throughout the Middle East. One of his big policies has been a vehement opposition to
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Saudi Arabia's neighbor, Iran. And on that note, he has found an ally in the White House.
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Inside the kingdom, MBS is also seeking to cement his authority and dominance over the royal family.
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Saudi Arabia's young crown prince arresting hundreds of his own cousins.
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Crack down on corruption. Eleven princes and nearly 40 current or former officials detained,
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reportedly being held at the lavish Ritz Carlton. Yes, if you're a Saudi prince, jail is the Ritz
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Carlton. MBS called this a corruption crackdown, and he branded himself as the financially responsible
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anti-corruption leader. But we're talking about a guy who recently purchased one of the most expensive
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homes in the world and who last year spent a half a billion dollars on a painting. He clearly had other
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motives for this crackdown beyond fiscal responsibility. One thing to realize is that
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the Saudi royal family is made up of thousands of members who use public money generated from oil
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revenues to fund their unfa- And now they're running out of oil! How are they going to get money?
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thinkably excessive lifestyles. So it wouldn't be hard for MBS to crack down on anyone he wants to.
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Chad, what else do you- Chad, talk to me so I can learn more about this guy. I've never heard
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about him before. Can you tell me more about him?
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Chad, talk to me. Coming into power, MBS's second big move was to loosen the strict moral and social
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rules of the kingdom. Is that the guy in the meme of like he's getting taking pictures everywhere and
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he just walks in like, do you remember? He's definitely not that guy, but that's what he looks
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like, right? You know what meme with the guy who walks in like with all the fucking paparazzi?
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He stripped the religious police of their right to make arrests. He expanded women's rights in society,
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including giving them the right to drive. On the surface, these are progressive social reforms
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meant to modernize Saudi society. But like the anti-corruption crackdowns, the move is another
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effort to seize power. Saudi society is built on a sort of pact between the royal family, which is
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called the House of Saud, and the vast religious establishment run by conservative Islamic clerics.
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The clerics give the Saud family legitimacy by giving them their blessing as rulers of the kingdom.
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In exchange, the family allows the clerics to strictly enforce their uncompromising, pure
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any leaked Bezos messages? That's kind of goaded.
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botanical version of Israel. So Chad, is he a W or L?
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Islam within the kingdom. This Faustian bargain means that Saudi princes like MBS and others
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can live these indulgent lifestyles and make deals with the West, but still retain religious
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legitimacy in the eyes of the public. It's a balance that has kept the kingdom stable in this very
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volatile region. But now MBS has violated his family's part of the bargain, arresting hardline
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clerics who might speak out against his progressive reforms. This could shake one of the foundational
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pillars of Saudi society. The third way MBS is shaking up the kingdom is his plans for the economy.
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The kingdom's revenue comes almost entirely from oil. Demand for oil has remained solid for decades,
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and Saudi has reaped the rewards of that. But in 2014, the price of oil started to drop. And it
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became clear that betting the entire kingdom's economy on this one resource was a dangerous
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strategy for the future. So MBS wants to end what he calls this oil addiction in order to prepare for
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a world after oil. He's laid out a vision for privatizing a lot of the sectors within the Saudi
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economy and breaking up this giant government-owned oil business. But this reform could also create
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more instability. Thanks to the endless oil money, Saudi citizens are entitled to a lifelong set of
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benefits like free health care and subsidized housing. But as MBS tries to privatize the economy and move away
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from oil, this subsidized lifestyle that so many Saudis enjoy could be threatened. And the public
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support that has kept this monarchy so solid for so many years could begin to dwindle. The Kingdom of
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Saudi Arabia is on the brink of one of the biggest transformations in its history. As this young
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leader consolidates power, his name is MBS, or to upend the status quo, he may also upend the pillars that
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have kept the kingdom one of the most stable countries in the Middle East.
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So is he in charge of Saudi Arabia? Okay, now I'm gonna look up Jake Tran, Ben Salmin. Someone in
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the chat was saying that. I seem pretty interested about that. There's no video of it. Okay, so