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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 than the sandbox of OTL?
What sort of PoD would this require? Something like the French being more inclined to dispute the British in the Mashriq, allying with the Saudis in the process and butterflying away the 1927 Jeddah Treaty? Perhaps Ibn Saud's favorite son and heir, Prince Turki, not dying of Spanish Flu in 1919?
What sort of territories could super-SA have conquered assuming most favorable circumstances? Transjordan? Kuwait? Qatar and/or Bahrain? Yemen? Chunks of Iraq's sandy southern periphery?
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