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The hardest thing for the Saudis will be who gets to rule when the last son of the first King of Saud dies.
Do the sons of the new King get to rule? There are several hundred cousins to argue that they shouldn’t.

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I think we all pretty much agree that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a backward, stifling, and restrictive nation with a strange bedouin culture that is highly at odds with its contemporary western counterpart. If it weren't for the oil money, they'd still live like clan-centric nomads in a detestable sea of sand, clitorectomies, and arranged marriages to children. Everything they enjoy, including indoor pools with parking garages for their fleets of Rolls-Royces came from the ingenuity of western european culture.