And just like all the other one-commodity powers of the past, this too shall pass. 100 years from now the whole middle east will lie in ruins, the oil long gone, their cities lying in ruins and in a perpetual state of civil war. The sheiks will have long fled after fleecing every last cent from under the deserts.
Those that can are already fleeing the failed political entities and crumbling Islamic cultures in Africa and the Mideast toward the lands formerly known as Christendom. Soon it will be a stampede.
The denial you made is not borne up by reality.
The photo depicts a global meeting place, a congregation of world businesses, come together to produce economic synergy. The trade is enormous and involves not only the Gulf but the trade eastward
“100 years from now the whole middle east will lie in ruins....”
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And its population will have emigrated to the West to do the same what it has done to their own countries.