Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "" video.

  1. Yes. I personally am a humanist but I can understand the ruthless behaviour of MBS. The Romans, during a bad time, selected a man to be a dictator (not the bad connotation) during those times to lead decisively. Saudi Arabia had been plagued by a gerontocracy for the past decades with kings who had their formative experiences in the 50s and 60s, who were often very ill and not up to the task to reform Saudi Arabia. MBS is young - he knows the risks continuing like Saudi Arabia did. If he could create a productive economy that would benefit most of the Arab world more then the remittances send back by the brightest and best.
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  2.  @ammarkhalid874  I think peasents would disagree about being lucky about being hit by the plague lol...
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  3.  @عبدالله-ن6ه2ص  Thats a very nice and bloomy way to describe massive corruption in FIFA... Anyway, which one is the largest sporting, political and economic event that is hosted in Saudi Arabia? If sports are not allowed for women, why trying to host it? Anyway, for modesty of women often is strict male control over them and despite all modesty, just look at how many women suffer in those countries.
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  4. Iraq was a crime and Bush deserved punishment but I fail to see Afghanistan as a crime
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  5.  @azoozalmjled6237  Bush is unfortunately not in prison. Anyway, I am not American but my country did not participate. And we respect human rights...
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  6. Or the golfer league LIV. Don't know how that will create jobs. It will just make some golfers very right.
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  7. Any European states? I don't recall Switzerland, Germany, Austria... destroying "every" Muslim or African state there is. IIRC the only Arab nations that have been attacked by Western states recently are Iraq and Libya. And with Libya this was decidedly not a poor Libya, bad west situation.
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  8.  @ImranKhan-ty6mx  1) Syria is a civil war. The large scale destruction is on Assad and Russia and the jihadists… 2) What did the West do in Sudan? 3) Somalia? Civil war… 4) Algeria? Civil war, unless you mean the war precedent to independence in 1962. Suffice to say that the problems of today cannot be completely attributed to France. 5) Yemen? It’s Saudi Arabia and UAE that bomb this country to pieces and Iran that supplies the other side. As for Libya - I do remember cheering Libyans in their civil war against Ghaddafi. It’s not as if this was done out of the blue… Really, most of your mentioned countries are homegrown problems. Not the result of foreign interventions.
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  9. Well - many countries have the death penalty. Although no European country save Belarus - so the only western country with the death penalty is the US; and many states there have abolished it.
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  10.  @Hundt453  True but it has expenditures that require a much higher oil price to break even.
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  11.  @ThinkTankWolf  The quality of education isn't all that good though. PISA 2018 saw Saudi students score: -399 in reading, far below the 487 OECD average. -373 in Maths, far below the 489 OECD average. -386 in Science, far below the 486 OECD average. The differences between boys and girls are drastic - the 3rd largest in all surveyed countries. In total, the Saudi educational attainment in PISA ranked below Peru, Thailand, Colombia etc... The best performing countries all came from Europe and East Asia. No middle eastern country scored higher than UAE (rank 47) and Saudi Arabia ranked 70th of all surveyed countries. And as for the PhD programms, IIRC most of those are in religious studies - hardly good enough to develop a modern economy. And comparing to North Africa - come on man.
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  12. My Godfather works for a large German export company. Although they don’t have a large presence in Saudi Arabia they have some presence there and want to increase business (they produce bull bearings for large machinery like wind turbines and other gear). They prefer to hire women in the Arab world (they have larger presence in other Arab countries) because they are the better workers. They are on average more educated and they make for better employees. They tend to be on time, are more thorough in their tasks and demand significantly less pay. Sounds sexist but Saudi men don’t have a good reputation in private sector employment. Women however see any employment as an opportunity for them and are much more motivated. Companies want the best bargain for employees. And women are a better bargain for many companies nowadays. Anyway, what do you think about the changes in your country?
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  13.  @عبدالله-ن6ه2ص  Nope. NATO is a 70 year old alliance between the US and most of Europe nowadays. Saudi Arabia cannot establish a NATO in the Middle East - at least not in 24h.
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  14.  @darkfool2000  The problem isn't that Saudi Arabia doesn't have oil or can't produce it at profit. The problem is that Saudi Arabia cannot produce that oil at prices that would balance the budget. Saudi Arabia has had massive population growth over the past decades and pil prices have grown with it so that the country could finance the lavish lifestyle of its citizens. In the future, population growth, costs of medicines etc... will increase while oil revenue will be stable or perhaps decline. So either Saudi Arabia massively cuts spending (which would be deeply unpopular and risk the dynasty of Al-Saud) or they find additional income and reduce the drain on the state budget by finding private sector jobs, that can be taxed. Most oil is used for transportation. 42% of all oil is used for light vehicles (cars); then freight trucks (11%) and aviation (6%). Global shipping only takes up some 1% of oil consumption (and they can use any oil residues they want for that). Only some 30% of oil is used for non-transport application. So in the event we massively increase electric transportation as planned within the next 20 years oil consumption will reduce. And in many nations already, oil consumption is stagnant and even declining despite economic growth.
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  15.  @darkfool2000  Mate, I do understand and I explained it above. Saudi Arabia may have very low costs of production - that much is true. However, Saudi Arabia cannot afford the lifestyle it currently has at low oil prices. If the oil price is at 40$ a barrel - they make 20 dollars profit but it won't be enough because they need oil prices at 90 dollars to cover all their expenditures. That is the big problem. The state cannot afford the current system anymore in the long run. That's why they do what they do. Asia will also turn to electric cars. China is poised to grow massively in the electrics market, other nations too. Sure, the Saudi military is crap - we all know that. Yet there are only 2 countries that could conquer it - USA and China. And others could waste it with nukes but nobody would. The main security concern for the Saudis isn't a conventional war with Iran - their military is even crappier than Saudi Arabia thanks to the lack of modern technology. They fly F-14 without updates for crying out loud. The Iranian problem is ideological and hybrid warfare.
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  16.  @darkfool2000  Saudi Arabia will not fail exports - people will demand less oil because they have non-oil alternatives! That is the problem Saudis are facing. They won’t run out of oil, they will run out on costumers. China doesn’t really burn oil. It’s too valuable. They mainly use coal. And they wanna grow in renewables to get rid on foreign energy dependences.
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  17.  @darkfool2000  Are you even listening to me? It’s not about whether they can or cannot pump oil. I have stated repeatedly that they can pump oil to the last day we need it. What you don’t seem to understand is that oil prices will not be enough to balance the budget for Saudi Arabia! If their competitors are priced out of the market - it means that the oil price is too low for most to produce. Meaning that KSA can produce for profit but otoh said profit will not be enough to cover the budget as it used to do. Again; I know they are the low cost producer. I want you to understand that at low prices Saudi Arabia cannot balance the budget and pay for all the goodies they currently have. And if they raise prices others will join production again. They don’t set the price. Oh, I can definitely tell you that. China uses mainly coal (62%), Hydro (17%), Wind (5.5%) and nuclear (4.5%) and solar (3.5%). Natural gas is only 3% and oil is used in so little quantities that it isn’t ranked at all. Sure, you can’t reach autarky. But better to import one ship load of lithium than 10,000 supertankers. And China can source Lithium from their own country.
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  18. Doubt it. A city isn't just formed by decree and buildings.
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  19. How do you claim „jealousy“? Anyway, India is by far not perfect but in general India respects human rights. There is little censorship, people can freely publish and voice their opinions on matters they want; women have had a much higher legal status etc. and I never saw Youtube vidoes about Myanmar economy
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