saudi arabia

Saudi Aramco was founded in 1933 by what became Chevron. Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. After World War 2 the Saudi government took over half of it's shares. After the Yom Kippur War it was completely nationalized. But What if before the Third Saudi State was established in 1902 a...

In the 1960s and 70s, the nations of Iraq and Syria fell to the ideology of Ba'athism while Egypt and other countries fell to Nasserism or variants of it, however, it failed to expand its reach outside of those two nations despite having regional branches/movements across the Arab World, such as...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Saudi_Arabian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt A group of Saudi Air Force officers, inspired by the wave of republican coups that toppled several Arab monarchies from the 1950s onward, attempted to do the same in their own country. Their plan was to hijack some...

*Iraqi influence

Both countries have similar sized populations, both countries have similar amount of oil reserves in their territory, yet Saudi Arabia is immensely more wealthy than Venezuela. Is it plausible that Venezuela can be as wealthy and prosperous as Saudi Arabia?

OK, it's my 1st time trying something like this. Some quick background -- I've recently read Iron Tigers, a middle part of a technothriller trilogy: The 1st book of the trilogy (never read it) was written in 1996 and had Saddam allying with Iran (WTF?) and using chemical weapons in an effort...

As the TL says. I was thinking that if by some reason there's a right-leaning government in Venezuela in the 60s (for instance, if Medina Angarita or Pérez Jiménez aren't overthrown), that government would have been more friendly towards the United States and wouldn't have tried to create an...

Apologies to the most holy custodians of the holy mosque for the instance of profanity uttered above. :cool: So how could we, with a point of divergence between 1900 and 1960, make it so that everyone's favorite Sunni theocracy, Saudi Arabia, manages to control substantially more territories...

POD of 1918 Make North Yemen be annexed as a Permanent part of Saudi Arabia by 1939 that remains all the way to this alternate present. When looking at how the Saudis took over many Arab Kingdoms such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz I always thought it was weird that yemen was the only...

A buddy of mine and myself have debating whether a coup during Saudi Arabia during the Great Recession would've worsened it and I began thinking on how the oil market could worsen the Recession in general? Would an earlier Arab Spring worsen it? How about an Iraq still controlled by Saddam...

Would the Ottomans be able to build an "Ottoman" national identity to deter Arab nationalism? Could they use Islam as a glue to unite the nation? If they stayed out of WW1 could they have crushed the Saudis and incorporated the rest of Arabia into the empire? Would they be a global economic...

So the main thing that I've been wondering is this. During 2011, the MENA region experienced what is now called in the West "The Arab Spring". This was a series of protests, revolutions, and armed insurrections against several dictatorial governments. While some countries were able to reform and...

Otl, after the iranian revolution, the USA, under Carter gave Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ousted Shah, refuge. Which went over poorly with the Islamic Republic. But what if we didn't? What if we approved the revolution, at least on paper. This would keep us away from Saudi Arabia over the 20th...

A Plan For The Future March 2nd, 1900 Sheikh Mubarak walks through the halls of his palace. The brownish color of the walls adorned with whatever decorations line either side. He eventually walks out into a courtyard, seeing his sons having his conversation. He loved his sons, both Jaber and...

As you know, Saudi Arabia is named after its ruling royal house, the House of Saud. Let's say that Saudi Arabia had a revolution/uprising in a similar way to Iran that resulted in the abolition of the monarchy, then what would Saudi Arabia's name be if it becomes a republic?

Britain and France backstabbed the arabs in the Sykes-Picot agreement after WW1. The Kingdom of Hejaz, which was a British protectorate of sorts, refused to sign a friendship treaty because of said backstab. Due to this the British didn't intervene when another British Client, the Sauds, invaded...

One of the great victories of the US in the Cold War was their out-manoeuvring of both the British and Soviets for position of pre-eminent power in the Middle East. Combined with American economic and banking power, good diplomacy helped ensure that the US had (and still has) a privileged...

Could the House of Sauds take over if the British kept their promise to Kingdom of Hejaz and allowed them to rule over a United Arabia Kingdom like this:

Out of all of the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia is most liberal, with a clean human rights record, free and fair elections, a constitution and a pluralistic religious policy. However, it most likely could have gone the other way, seeing as how it was an Absolute Monarchy until the 1960s. How could...

During the Wahhabi Sack of Karbala in 1802, the Qajar Shah offered to send a few thousand Persian troops to assist the defense of the city, but the Sultan declined, allowing for less possible fortifications. This may be because the Persians could instead capture the city for themselves or for...