Some Saudi Sheik in 1929 remarked that he loved Great Britain and the US, as blonde, blue-eyed boys who he could snap his fingers at, and his will be done, due to the oncoming automotive age. He was right, for a time.
Fracking put an end to that shit. DJT and myself are blonde, blue-eyed, tall, enraged Americans, and I can feel his contempt for Middle East oil hegemony right there with mine.
Oil hegemoney is moving to the Christian North, away from Islam.
Bakr was all his life an Arabist, for and by the Oil countries.