The really dumb thing about all this is there is a perfectly good waterway on the west coast of Arabia called the Red Sea but with all the trillions made by the Kingdom, they never thought to invest in a second pipeline.

Instead, Princes bought their 25th Lamborghinis.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

The Red Sea you say?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

The topography is non conductive. There was a pipeline that went to Sidon though.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the us empire has a track record of smacking down their puppet governments in the gulf region whenever they try to invest in their country's infrastructure like this because the empire fears that it might make them more independent of its control.

they're only allowed to develop in a way that benefits the us empire and it's gotten to such a bizarre extreme that the leaders of the people in the region have an expression for it:

My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.