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ARAMCO: The Rise Of Saudi Arabia By J. B.

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Saudi Arabia was thought of a nomadic land filled with nothing but camels and sand dunes by the United States. Once oil was discovered there however the United States changed its opinion and created a vast oil infrastructure campaign post WWII. Since then Saudi Arabia bought its way out and became the controller of the oil fields and infrastructure that the United States helped build. Saudi Arabia now controls arguably the entire oil market and this gives them a strong presence in the global oil market. Now a new prince is taking over Saudi Arabia and ARAMCO which is the world’s largest oil company run by Saudi Arabia’s government. The new prince is more aggressive and already cutting ties with OPEC members and supports war in Yemen, but to …show more content…

Since oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1933 the United States oil companies were in control of the oil companies and operations in Saudi Arabia allowing the United States to have control of what happens with the oil. The Saudi Arabian government eventually bought ARAMCO out of United States oil company control in 1988 and was already an established and efficient oil company that was now fully under Saudi Arabia’s control. Since ARAMCO is such a well-established oil company they have been successful at changing how the rest of the world sees them. In a book review of Saudi Arabian history J.B Kelly exposes how the authors were influenced by ARAMCO to make the Saudi Arabian government and royal family seem more favorable in the eyes of the world. The review brings up specific examples from the history book that are incorrect or swayed in favor of Saudi Arabia’s government and royal family such as not bringing up harsh rule that the government has had on their people so that the rest of the world would see Saudi Arabia as a peaceful and respectable country . This shows how ARAMCO which is ruled by Saudi Arabia’s government has been able to change how the country is looked at by other counties to cover up how they have abused the people living there in order to seem more appealing and continue to have good relations with other countries to whom they sell

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