This is the longest video I've ever posted and naturally, UKposts decided to demonetize it immediately upon release. This has been resolved now, but it nonetheless severely affects performance because YT doesn't promote videos as heavily when they are demonetized, and the first few hours of a release are critical for gaining momentum, which is handicapped when the video is demonetized for those first few hours and being underpromoted. These massive videos are extremely expensive and time-consuming to produce, so if you want to watch even more and support the channel directly, please consider checking out the next part of this video covering how the international coalition eliminated ISIS in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2019, which you can view on Nebula here: nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-fall-of-isis It's all a part of my Modern Conflict series over there, and there are dozens of other episodes you can watch as well. Thank you

If there’s one thing this channel has taught me, it’s that there is no country that doesn’t have some kind of existential problem in the modern world

The founder of Dubai once said: « My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again » He was talking about UAE but it’s the feeling of Arab world in general

This is seriously one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I wasn't expecting to watch the entire thing in 1 sitting after randomly clicking on something that looked interesting. Well done!

By far, the best Saudi Arabian centric Middle Eastern history documentary one could produce. Well done 👏

I like how Oman is just chilling there in the corner, being like... "Oh, man...". What an extremely rarely mentioned country.

Thank you for this. It is so complex and overwhelming for a novice on this subject but it is. highly appreciated to allow me to gain knowledge.

I learn so much from your videoes - this and your other ones. I'm very grateful for the time and effort you invest into every video. Keep up the amazing work.

I think a video about the Balkans geography and how that influenced the history and politics of that region would be very interesting.

Going to watch on Nebula now!! I love Nebula and love that all my fav youtubers got together and built it!!!!!!! Such a great service and showing all the educational videos I want to see!

Wow…excellent work, So interesting and how have I not found this channel before…new fan ,Australia

Honestly, it sounds like Saudi Arabia started this adjustment too late. The more I hear about most things in the world, the more it sounds like entrenched power has repeatedly set itself up to fall entirely because they aren't willing to give an inch.

Great video, although it misses a couple of very important key facts: 1) As alluded to, the US is well capable of producing an excess of oil over and above what they need domestically, they just choose not to for various reasons. 2) When making the deal with the Saudis for their supply of oil, the US added another stipulation to the agreement; that the Saudis use the US dollar for pricing and transacting for oil. This gave the US dollar IMMENSE strength and power globally and was one of the main cornerstones of the USD's global dominance and subsequently US global power. 3) Recent Saudi deals with China to trade oil in Chinese Yuan and agreements with Russia regarding oil supply and pricing have significantly strained the relationship with the US. 4) Despite their best efforts and intentions, the world will not be able to remove their reliance on oil any time soon. Alternative energy generation is still a long way from being good enough to replace oil. While nuclear power generation could likely do the job, this is not a favoured option for many countries.

I can’t say enough about the quality of this video. A great learning experience in regards to how the history of the Sunni-Shia conflict at it’s core plays into the proxy sides pitted against eachother in the Middle East, and then dialing into KSA itself and assessing the depletion of this cash crop likely rendering them helpless if unable to diversify its economy on short notice. Keep excelling as the great creator you are, many thanks!!

Wow this stuff is fascinating. Thanks for all the work and time.

You missed the most important part of the Saudi-US relationship, which is the Saudi promise to only sell oil for dollars. This is what ensures that the dollar remains the world reserve currency. It’s the backbone of US prosperity, which the Saudi’s have recently begun undermining when they announced their intention to sell oil for Yuan.

The shorter version of this video Saudi Arabia is doomed, because of it’s geographical position, being surrounded by enemies, and being part of a market, less reliable on oil

I learned an ENORMOUS, amount from this MASSIVE video. Thanks!

Very interesting, informative video. I can't offer anything more than other commentators haven't already said. But ... a bit of criticism - not enough pause between sentences / ideas to absorb them. Before an idea is absorbed, the next one hits right away. Good thing UKposts supplies a pause button.

The idea that any nation will be oil free by 2050 is hilarious. Edit: There's nothing worse than commies and liberals.

as a saudi hearing my country referred to as "doomed" is a little bit irking but i can understand why these concerns exist. Yeah oil wont be around forever but we are so far away from a future where oil isnt important. By then im sure Saudi will have developed loads of other income streams no doubt

I'm always gobsmacked by the amount of research that goes into these. This does an amazing job at showing just how complicated geopolitics are..

Having worked for Saudi Aramco for 16 years in the eastern province, it was a fantastic experience. A chance also to travel all over the other Gulf countries as well. Especially by motorcycle.

Top notch production , this is high quality content !!

The modern conflicts series is legitimately good. Worth the nebula subscription for that alone.

And really, Saudi Arabia's current fairly dire situation is actually their *best-case* scenario. Imagine if the US were to not merely stop protecting Saudi Arabia but become *actively hostile* to them.

Incredible video. Thank you for this!

Excellent video! It's explains the major geopolitcal problems in that area down to the line in a short but precise manner. This should be mandatory to teach our kids where all these problems originated from and developed until today. My deepest respect for the creator of this video!

Several counter points: 1- KSA has at least 700b$ in their national wealth fund invested everywhere in the world. 2- KSA still has the support of the Arab and Muslim world because of its religious importance 3- The world may need less oil as fuel in the future, however, KSA is focusing more and more on using its oil in petrochemical industries 4- The ages of coal and wood are over. However, we are still consuming massive amounts of coal and wood as sources of energy. If you can produce oil cheap enough (KSA can), you will always find customers. 5- KSA still has many other sources of income that they are hardly exploiting now, from religious tourism to massive mines of natural resources to seaports exploiting its great geolocation. *The challenges for KSA are great, but it is far from being doomed.

Back when I was a soldier, I was an intelligence analyst, and I’m surprised you got all this right for the most part. Wish I had this video when I first started!

Well done. This covers so much information in a well laid out format

Absolutely packed full of good information. Well done 👏

This video was helpful in relaying why the Yemen war happened. The media made a mish mash of the subject, making it increasingly to difficult to understand what’s happening and why.

As Aramco employee, i can confirm that ksa has 12 other resources for power and its starting to decrease the oil sales and rely on the other resources

0951 pm, 02/08/2024, I wanted to complement you on your narration, I like the way you change the rhythm and tempo to make a point. Plus you speak very clearly, and your pronunciation is very good. You have a very good skill set for this type of work. I’ve had to suffer instructors who were monotone and it was putting everyone to sleep. Good Luck in your further endeavors. PS: I can not imagine the time and effort it takes to research, splice and edit each of your videos! Wow!

Venezuelan oil is thicker younger oil. The Canadian oil is the oldest best oil, but harder to access because it's in the coldest terrain.

I'd find it really helpful if where was a little graphic down in the corner of videos like this that could tell you at any point aproximately what year in history we are discussing the events of. I'm constantly asking myself "Wait, so are we still in the 80's? Or is this happening right now? Or some other time entirely??"

As an Iraqi who was born in Baghdad in 2001 and raised there for 5 years, I am severely disappointed in Iraq for wanting to invade Kuwait and Saudi for oil, rather than developing their own country to become a powerhouse like the United States of America, China, and Russia. As the video stated the Tigris and Euphrates river provided fertile lands for Iraq to set up an agricultural sector that would've fed the people of Iraq, and plenty of oil to get the money to put into developing schools and increasing the quality of life for the people of Iraq. Instead of Iraq being a war-torn country, it could've been a global political influencer. Really sad to see this as an Iraqi.

Thank your for this deep dive. Very interesting stuff

This does an amazing job at showing just how complicated geopolitics are.

As an African, I'm glad people are talking about this dark history of ours. May it be a lesson that evil is not based on race but based on the very nature of human beings and we should all as humanity, not races, learn from the mistakes of our ancestors....

Thank you for this amazing video!

Good informative video, learning lots of information I didn’t know.

The late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia once told Henry Kissinger "You (the west) are the ones who can't live without oil. You know, we come from the desert, and our ancestors lived on dates and milk and we can easily go back and live like that again"

Sucks about the demonetization. Appreciate what you do though. Very informative video not just about SA, but the politics behind so many conflicts in the Middle East over the past century. Keep up the good work

This has been really informative thankyou for putting out this piece it's all been really confusing trying to work out what's Really going on over there u explain it so clearly it's so easy to follow and understand

Incredible insight! Thank you for your hard work!

Thank you for the effort. As a Saudi I have somewhat of a different perspective when it comes to some of the things that you mentioned in the clip. As you’ve explained, it’s a rough neighborhood. I wish that we had Canada and Mexico as our neighbors but unfortunately we don’t. You did an excellent job of explaining the geopolitics of the region and many of the challenges that are faced; in fact, better than most mainstream media and “Middle East” experts. The areas where I might differ the most are mostly around the positioning of the societal and internal dynamics, for example it is inferred that the only reason that the country still exists is because of the discovery of oil and that the people are being “bribed”. While oil has been an extremely important part of the growth and development of the country, it’s important to remember that it was established and existed well before oil was discovered. And I wouldn’t exactly call spending on the healthcare, education (both of which have been the main budget items since the establishment of those sectors) and wellbeing of its citizens bribery! In fact, many European countries spend more on welfare as a percentage of their budget than Saudi does. Additionally, I think that the positioning of the nature of the relationship with the US, while it is an important relationship for both sides for many reasons, as an existential one for Saudi is highly overstated in the clip. Saudi is important to, and has influence on over around 1.8billion people around the word since it houses the two holiest sites for Muslims and it has often leveraged this weight to resolve many issues in the region and beyond, working alongside the US and others, a role which is often overlooked in the mainstream media. Overall, I think that this was a good summary, one of the best that I’ve seen, specially when it comes to geopolitics, (not so much so the cultural aspects around internal dynamics, government and society) so with the exception of the positioning of the issues that I mentioned above and some others that I won’t go over (which I attribute to cultural bias and/or differences, in the existing and available material on Saudi), great effort! PS. I also must very much disagree with the title of the clip, I think that Saudi Arabia has a very bright future ahead of it!

Time for my weekly dose of 50 mins of maps and stock footage which is somehow still really interesting.

VERY informative and interesting Documentation of Our world Great work, and Continue with this course of content

Wow, this video answered a lot of what was behind the news. Many thanks!

While of course there's so much MORE to this story than meets the eye, your history lesson is extraordinarily helpful nonetheless. Thank you for your hard work on this.

The videos here and on Nebula have taught me so much about what's happening in the world. Recent news stories about the gulf of Oman, the bridge in Crimea, and the blockade of the Black Sea are things I understood so much better because of your videos

This vlog was a real power info package of the history of this area of political and religious contradictions. The development on explains very precisely why and where the present conlicts root from. Thank you, well done✌️

Very informative. Thank you.

It is INSANE that I’m learning the real reasons for many things AT THIS STAGE in my life Real Life Lore is a priceless channel giving amazing info for free. What a world we live in

This is a stunningly interesting video and finally made me understand the conflicts and balancing acts I hear so much about in the middle east. I always knew that there was a lot of war, fighting and terror organizations but I never understood what exactly the background were. Very interesting to see!

Very interesting! I learned lots of things I didn't know.

As someone who is fascinated by the history in the area (especially classical/pre-Islamic), it pains me to hear you refer to the region as "useless" (pre-oil) :( But I understand that it's through a resource-based perspective, and it is really a comment on their dependence on oil. I guess their cultural history doesn't bring much revenue xd

I learned more in this 50+ minute showing than I did when working for 5 years in the 80's. I drove across Saudi a few times, explored mountains and vast open spaces. I actually enjoyed most of my time there! I certainly saw the country. I saw obscene wealth and I saw poverty. Yes, there are poor Saudi's for sure!

This is the most comprehensive and digestible summary of Saudi Arabian politics I've seen. Well done!

New subscriber I really love your show though this is going to be awesome 😎😃🇺🇸❤️❤️

Wow! I would have to watch this video 10 times to take it all in. Thank you for this lesson in history.

Being a resident of the region, I knew most of this already, but it's still very eye-opening and educational. I'm sorry to hear this video was demonetized, but not really surprised to be honest. Hope things get better for you, your channel truly is a gem.

Thank you so much for making this video. It can be very difficult to understand how all of the conflicts in the Middle East relate to each other and the detail in this video really helps make things quite clear.

Learn much from this document! Thank you.

I really hope Saudi Arabia overcomes all these challenges ahead and becomes a hub of tourism, technology and progressive thinking in the Middle East.

Been subscribed for longe than I can remember. This channel has thought me so much about the world. Keep up the amazing work!

I'm still very skeptical about whether the world will really stop needing Saudi oil. The vision to decarbonize economies is wishful thinking, we aren't doing nearly enough to increase the production of copper, lithium, cobalt and other minerals needed for renewables, which aren't a reliable source of energy anyways, and there hasn't been a sufficient increase in nuclear energy either. Especially with Russia being a pariah state to much of the world now, Saudi Arabian oil will be needed by someone. Maybe not America, but probably Europe, and definitely China, Japan and India.

I will show my kids all of your videos. Great content.

Thanks, for making a super informative video

I love the length of this video. Thank you for producing it

Understanding Middle Eastern geopolitics is a brain melting endeavor... Congratulations, my dude.

good comprehensive video overall .

I really love this video, well crafted!

This was an excellent synopsis of WTF has been going on in the ME and why the US was involved at all…thank you for this information!!

I was born in 2002, adults diddnt wanna tell kids about the war and why we were there and by the time i got to highschool it was all to recent to make it into the history books. I never actually learned about WHY, everyone just says "oil" and moves on with it. Thank you for this video!! It clarified SO MANY questions i had growing up that no one seemed to know the answer to or wanted to tella kid

Finally I've understood something about this intricate situation. This is why I thank you so much for this meaningful video!

This has been a legitimately fascinating look into the history of this region of the world. Thank you for putting this video together for us!

This is just exactly what I want from UKposts videos. Educational on topics I would never know about otherwise.

I highly enjoy your videos because it is really nice that you use so many videos, maps and features in your videos. It makes it worth it to prove YT to promote this 😊

What you fail to mention is that the manufacturing of plastics & other products like pesticides consumes more from a barrel of oil than we do for energy. It is no longer energy that we need to fear it is everything else. Our clothing, homes, furniture, everything we seem to touch comes from oil. As for the future of Saudi Arabia, thats on them. We need to think about our own future & stop worrying about others who don’t even like us anyways.

What a great documentary! Well done

Its funny because my great-grandfather was one of the few American oil workers that was first there when the Saudi oil was discovered -- infact my mom literally has a physical picture of the first oil explosion (which is more terrifying to me than wondrous) We still have camel whip-blades from the sultan himself at that time (the only thing that ever got passed down, he never shared his wealth with my grandfather, and my mom grew up quite poor because of it, so we aren't rich from this domino effect)

I hardly ever leave comments on UKposts videos but I had to for this one. This was incredibly educational and informative. One of the best videos I've ever watched here. Thank you so much for putting this together so succinctly. Truly fascinating!

With respect.. Kept me riveted.. Watched the whole documentary.. Presentation and narrative.. Excellent.. You have a gift from God.. Do not stray from your path.. The road is narrow..with many difficulties.. Good v Evil.. God Bless..

i too found this so interesting. so much that i will watch again.

The death of oil is vastly overstated.

Great job. Was in Iraq twice for long deployments, didnt really know why. Its nice to see the content like this making it to the masses. Your efforts are much appreciated. A bit of negative responses to be expected eh? While we sit here in the US being told where and why, then go over seas and talk to natives and hear thier perspective on our occupation into their home lands... TY

Your vid had me go to nebula. Their captcha is broken on mobile so I can't checkout. Guess my money is no good

great video learned a lot

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job/maps enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator is describing.

Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see reference to the agricultural advances that the kingdom has made, which are improving not only its' domestic needs, but increasing its' exports. Perhaps you could include that information in another release.

In the intro I was waiting for him to say the spice must flow!

Great video! A neat and detailed explanation on a topic that tends to be oversimplified in mainstream media.

Great video, certainly the best summary of Saudi history I have seen: interesting historical footage and beautiful informative maps.

Thanks!

Saudi needs to invest in desalination equipment to insure water for itself

I appreciate the material you produce on UKposts and Nebula Stream, honestly I wish you were my history and Government teacher. As I have learned so much from your content.

Nice video Real life lore keep up the good work you’re one of the main reasons I got into geopolitics