Saudi Arabia's long-term modernization projects are portrayed as hubristic fantasies made possible only by peace, oil wealth, and denial of underlying fragility.
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"and before, like like 30 years ago, it was the city of like a few hundred thousand. Why was it a few hundred thousand?..."
"You know, they wanted to build like an indoor ski slope in Saudi Arabia, in a desert. They had something called the Nome, the..."
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