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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled (ig.ft.com)

submitted 4 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unraveled? It was never together

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Right? It was self-evidently a grift, yet “serious” bourgeois rags like FT pretend otherwise.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was too ambitious and the economy wasn't able to make it happen. Still other projects such as Riyadh Metro were successful.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 months ago

I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 months ago

Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A vast desert complex is better built underground. There are some nice funnel-formed concepts around.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The people who did 9/11 tried to build a horizontal skyscraper because they just love to see those things on the ground. Fuck Saudi Arabia. I’m glad it’s failing

[–] cheesorist@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

how'd that propaganda taste?

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The man who did 9/11 died a couple days ago

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People believe this shit and it is wild. Osama Bin Laden was opposed to the Saudi government and living in exile having had his citizenship revoked many years before 2001 while he was still working with the CIA stirring shit up in Central Asia.