What would the world look like if Europeans had colonized Saudia Arabia?

dirtyharry555

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The Saudis are perhaps the luckiest people in all of human history having struck the oil lottery. Billionaires thru living in a desert that happened to have oil beneath it.

European colonial powers had no idea that trillions worth of oil was under that dirt so Saudis were spared colonial rule.

But what if they hadn't been.
 
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I guess the western world would be oversupplied with oil at a
lower price for a longer time with Saudi colonized.
 

Robert Mugabe

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As some wise ass said what are those people doing sitting on all our oil? Dick Cheyney probably.

 

DesRicardo

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They did colonize Saudi Arabia, by way of the US.

The world would look exactly the same. Extreme poverty everywhere with only a few controlling the wealth.
 
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DesRicardo

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Also, lets not act like the middle-east was some push over region. Europe is actually lucky the Muslims didn't colonize them.

Colonization is actually a result of Europe being scared of the middle east. The muslim's wouldn't allow them to establish trade routes to India.
 
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Robert Mugabe

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I already told you. We devised this plan right when you were born, and have now installed an Indian PM in UK. Its all coming together. The goal is to move 50% of India's population to Canada by 2050. :ROFLMAO:
Tell us something we don't know. When it comes to drowning the world with people nobody wants, you are clearly the winners.
 

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The Saudis are perhaps the luckiest people in all of human history having struck the oil lottery. Billionaires thru living in a desert that happened to have oil beneath it.

European colonial powers had no idea that trillions worth of oil was under that dirt so Saudis were spared colonial rule.

But what if they had.
Would have played out a lot like with the Osage tribe in Kansas/Oklahoma...
 
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