With a piece of cloth on my head, I am the richest in the world, what kind of country is Saudi Arabia? These years have not been easy.
When it comes to Saudi Arabia, what comes to people's minds is definitely the strange costumes of the locals, as well as countless luxury cars, beautiful women, palaces, etc. Anyway, in everyone's impression, Saudi Arabia is very rich and a rich country.
It is also true that Saudi Arabia is one of the richest countries in the world, and the reason for its wealth is known to the whole world, relying on terrible reserves of oil, and for oil, the whole world must have a good relationship with him.
On the surface, Saudi Arabia, which wants money and money and has status, is really cool and has embarked on the peak of "national life".
Now Saudi Arabia's prosperity is exchanged for long-term humiliation and patience, and it is not easy for Saudi Arabia to reach this step, it is all bitter tears.
First, Saudi Arabia, which is not at war.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, located on the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Persian Gulf in the east, the Red Sea in the west, bordering Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar and other countries on land, with a land area of 2.25 million square kilometers, is the largest country in the Middle East, ranks fourteenth in the world, and is a proper territorial power.
The history of Saudi Arabia is relatively old and special, and it is well known that the Saudi religion is very famous, and they mainly believe in Islam (Sunni), which was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century AD.
The mighty Arab Empire also began here, when the city of Mecca, in addition to being a holy place for Islam, was also a major road for north-south traffic, with an endless stream of merchants and a prosperous scene.
Because of its geographical location and religion, it can be said that there are many disasters and difficulties here, and since the 7th century AD, the war has not stopped, whether it is during the four major caliphates, or during the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties.
In the 13th century, the powerful Mongol Empire invaded and occupied the area, the Arab Empire collapsed, and in 1517, the then caliph Mutawakil was also captured, and died many years later, and the caliph's rule was officially severed.
Until 1750, a local king established the original Saudi Arabia, but saudi Arabia was weak at this time, bullied by the powerful Ottoman Empire, and deprived of power many times.
In order to get rid of the control of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915, with the help of the British, the Saudis broke away from the Ottoman Empire, and the United Kingdom became its suzerainty and signed a treaty.
It was not until 1927 that Saudi Arabia fully achieved independence, and in 1932 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formally established, becoming a sovereign state.
From the 7th century AD to the full independence of 1932, for more than 1,200 years, the saudi war has not stopped, and it is no exaggeration to say that Saudi Arabia was fought by war.
2. Leased land for the purpose of development
In the end, independence and unification were achieved, but embarrassing things happened, looking around the world, most of the major countries at that time completed the secondary industrial revolution, and the economy was transformed into an industrialized economy.
At this time, Saudi Arabia was still dominated by a traditional nomadic economy, the industry was weak to negligible, and the distance from modern cities was like a barrier, and poverty, backwardness, and primitiveness plagued the newly independent Saudi Arabia.
So building a country has become the top priority of Saudi Arabia, building a country requires money, Saudi Arabia at that time was super poor, except for cattle and sheep, there was nothing to get out of, at that time large-scale oil was not discovered, people knew that there was oil here, but no one thought there would be so much.
So Saudi Arabia thought about the development of loans, but the loans must also have collateral, so saudi arabia in 1933 painstakingly leased more than 930,000 square kilometers of oil exploration rights to the United States for 66 years.
To know that the entire Saudi Arabia is only 2.25 million square kilometers, nearly half of the territory is leased to the United States for exploitation, this is how helpless to make such a decision, its sad taste is only known to Saudi Arabia itself at that time.
In 1938, the United States discovered amazing oil reserves here, and Saudi Arabia's fate began to change.
The smooth exploitation of a large amount of oil has allowed Saudi Arabia's wealth to accumulate rapidly and move towards the fast lane of development, and they have vigorously introduced science and technology to improve agricultural production; the development of public utilities such as transportation, post and telecommunications, education, and medical care, which can be described as the happiest time in Saudi Arabia.
However, as Saudi Arabia becomes richer and richer, it has also aroused the covetousness of other countries, so Saudi Arabia can only hug the thighs of the United States, willing to be the little brother of the United States, and introduce various advanced weapons to deter other countries.
Third, the clouds of war are shrouded
But the Middle East is never a peaceful place, in the 80s of the last century, the United States provoked the Iran-Iraq war, and then Israel joined it, the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, more and more tragic, and Saudi Arabia firmly remains neutral, just want to make money and development.
Unfortunately, it was still affected by the war, first by Israel's invasion of airspace, and then by Iraq's bombing of oil fields, Saddam Even sent troops to indiscriminately attack oil tankers passing through the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia suffered a senseless disaster, heavy losses.
At this time, Saudi Arabia rushed to seek help from the United States, but this war was originally provoked by the United States, and they did not care about this at all, which made Saudi Arabia dumbfounded.
Every day, oil tankers and oil fields are attacked, and the losses are so painful that the eyes of the surrounding neighbors are even more chilling, and it can be said that Saudi Arabia has reached the most critical juncture at this time.
The situation is very urgent, Saudi Arabia can only seek help among the global powers, after asking for help from a number of Western countries, they were rejected, and can only risk the idea of trying to find the mainland.
What happened later, as we all know, Saudi Arabia bought 35 DF-3 missiles for $3.5 billion.
In 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, it intended to invade Saudi Arabia, at this time, Saudi Arabia displayed the Dongfeng 3 missile in a high profile, directly allowing Saddam Hussein to retreat in ashes. It was from then on that Saudi Arabia's waist plate finally hardened, and humiliation officially became a thing of the past.
From this incident, Saudi Arabia has also begun to see the face of the United States, and Saudi Arabia no longer relies entirely on the United States, but uses its own resource advantages to establish good diplomatic relations with countries around the world.
Saudi Arabia has carried out a number of cooperation with the mainland in recent years, and both sides are very satisfied, and the relations between the two countries have further heated up.
But now Saudi Arabia, although very rich, but hidden one of the biggest hidden dangers, that is, oil is always limited, what to do after the exploitation.
Therefore, Saudi Arabia is now actively establishing relations with countries around the world, and making a lot of investment, developing the financial industry, and changing the economic structure to cope with future problems.
epilogue
A piece of cloth on the head, the richest in the world, Saudi Arabia has been very difficult along the way, all bitter tears, but the pay is still rewarded, after these years of development, Saudi Arabia has got rid of weak and small poverty. At present, Saudi Arabia is rich, developed, has good welfare benefits, and has high development potential, which is gratifying.
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