DBWI: No Kingdom of Arabia

The parliamentary democracy named the Kingdom of Arabia was one of the most successful of the developing nations, after getting their independence with the help of Britain. The new nation proved a crucial ally in the north africa campaign as well as an effective provider of oil. The post war boom and the importance of its position in the cold war had lead to Arabia becoming a developed country, but what if Britain had continued its policy of empire
 
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Britain was foremost the guarantor of whole Arab independence from Damascus to the Persian Gulf. With a strong indpendent Armenia and Kurdistan to the north Arab was also shielded from the threat of Communism.

Free education paid for with oil dollars made Beirut and Damascus hubs for the sciences. The Zion autonomous zone from the Jordan to the sea has been a major testing grown for. making the desert bloom. Jewish scientists are now found managing projects in western China, Libaya and Egyptian-Sudan.
 
If the Arabs never got their united kingdom, I imagine that the Arabs wouldn't have been so friendly to the Jewish settlers and the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement would have been simply forgotten to history. It's honestly difficult to imagine the Arabs and Jews fighting over that land.
And also it's good that the Hashemite Kingdom was able to conquer the Saudi Emirate quickly. A lot of people forget about the Saudis' crazy religious ideology. If they got access to all that oil god knows what they're gonna do to the Middle East.
 
The parliamentary democracy named the Kingdom of Arabia was one of the most successful of the developing nations, after getting their independence with the help of Britain. The new nation proved a crucial ally in the north campaign as well as an effective provider of oil. The post war boom and the importance of its position in the cold war had lead to Arabia becoming a developed country, but what if Britain had continued its policy of empire

I heard the British considered dividing up Arabia between themselbes and the French, but stuck with the original deal. If they did, it would've been a clusterfluck given how well it went for the other colonial regions. Especially if the House of Saud got power, given their ties to Wahhabism, a now extiinct branch of ultra-conservative Islam.
 
I heard the British considered dividing up Arabia between themselbes and the French, but stuck with the original deal. If they did, it would've been a clusterfluck given how well it went for the other colonial regions. Especially if the House of Saud got power, given their ties to Wahhabism, a now extiinct branch of ultra-conservative Islam.
I think I read about that deal. They probably would have gone through with it if T.E. Lawrence hadn't exposed them.
 
The Arabian nation had to jump through a few hoops concerning minorities and other denominations of Islam, if they hadn't took the diplomatic route they had in our time line, with the Soviets about things could go very wrong
 

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@JSilvy I think you overstate the insanity of Wahhabism. Puritanical and stodgy, beyond a doubt, but not an actively malignant force like Hinduvata or the various stripes of Orthodox. It was far to parochial in nature to cause major geopolitical issues.
 
@JSilvy I think you overstate the insanity of Wahhabism. Puritanical and stodgy, beyond a doubt, but not an actively malignant force like Hinduvata or the various stripes of Orthodox. It was far to parochial in nature to cause major geopolitical issues.
I suppose. And they would still have to deal with the far stronger secular Iranians to the east. I highly doubt any of the major world powers would have bought their oil from a corrupt theocratic regime with a far more free oil-rich nation right across the Persian Gulf.
 

Bulldoggus

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I suppose. And they would still have to deal with the far stronger secular Iranians to the east. I highly doubt any of the major world powers would have bought their oil from a corrupt theocratic regime with a far more free oil-rich nation right across the Persian Gulf.
Eh, them Saud boys would have dumped the religion once it became convienent.
 
I suppose. And they would still have to deal with the far stronger secular Iranians to the east. I highly doubt any of the major world powers would have bought their oil from a corrupt theocratic regime with a far more free oil-rich nation right across the Persian Gulf.

Ooooooh not necessarily... From some stuff we got recently from Iran, the British were considering to launch a coup in Iran when they nationalized their oil and said plans included asking the USA. Granted, the US was spending that time supporting Iran as a partner against the USSR and they had to pretty much browbeat the British into just reforming their stuff they had with Arabia.

Granted, tese are probably just the worst outcomes, but Iran still prefers talking to the US over most othe rmajor powers most of the time.
 
If Britain had gone back on their word and not helped the emerging state how would the region develop with de-colonisation. A series of states or one unifying Arab state in a federation like India. I think the bonds of Arab nationalism and brotherhood would prove too strong and we would still see one Arab state.
 
If Britain had gone back on their word and not helped the emerging state how would the region develop with de-colonisation. A series of states or one unifying Arab state in a federation like India. I think the bonds of Arab nationalism and brotherhood would prove too strong and we would still see one Arab state.
Not so sure about that. We would probably see a bunch of Emirates or perhaps countries drawn along arbitrary lines like in Africa reflecting colonial borders. I bet the Kurds would probably be able to easily dominate over these divided Arab states and particularly in the northern half of the Levant and Mesopotamia.
 
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