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Jiang says Saudi Arabia’s oil economy is a strategic problem because it has tried to diversify into knowledge, tourism, and games but still depends heavily on oil exports.
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Jiang says Saudi Arabia’s oil economy is a strategic problem because it has tried to diversify into knowledge, tourism, and games but still depends heavily on oil exports.
The speaker says Saudi Arabia's economic outlook was grim because its economy depended on finite oil, possible near-term depletion, climate change, and slowing global demand.
"So, these are two different sects of the same religion, but it's like Protestants and Catholics. They just hate each other. Okay? Okay? And..."
"But to do that, you needed to reduce tensions in the Middle East. And so in 2015, he made a deal with Iran called..."
"Okay? Now, if you're optimistic, you'll be like, well, Saudi Arabia would run out of oil in about 70 years' time or 80 years'..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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