Good overview of the Neom fantasy vs Bonesaw reality.
Imagine if the Saudi tribe would simply use their zakat to give land and homes to stateless people, offer free medical or higher learning universities maybe even free surgeries for the poor instead of jailing women, bombing the shit out of Yemen and killing polite dissidents.
The guardians of Mecca need some PR help and rightful guidance. I am not sure why view their biggest enemy as the shia when it is actually the west that is turning against them. A Jetson city for rich people run by slaves is not going to save them.
The Gulf families like 60's Disney world fair ideas like Masdar City in the UAE. Ironically proving that the tribal oil nations are dysfunctional and obsolete.
These naive "visions of the future" actually come from great social stress. In 1939 America promised us a glimpse of the future. flashbak.com/the-1939-new-y…
Neom is a vision of the future in an archaic country that can be destabilized in minutes. There might even be a great sci fi fantasy movie about how to hack the city and it's security payment and transportation systems. But its more. neom.com/the-line.html
"Another Saudi proposal outlined what the Trump administration later called “an Arab NATO.” In their presentation the Saudis described it as an Islamic military coalition of tens of thousands of troops “ready when the president-elect wishes to deploy them.”nytimes.com/2018/12/08/wor…
MBz offered 5000 mercenaries for Afghanistan. Not a coincidence that Erik was pushing his air support and intel powrpoint. 
In July of 2020 Erik Prince dragged the long dead Samarus Co Ltd out of the registration graveyard. Same place Dorian Barak registered ABI and Frontier: Kennedy, 8, ATHIENITIS BUILDING, Floor 1, Flat 103 Agioi Omologites 1087, Lefkosia, Cyprus. Then the election.
If Samarus sounds familiar it was in the Deferred Prosecution Agreement Prince signed in 5/7/2012. He is above all...linear. gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…
So in closing NEOM is a bright shiny thing that attracts attention from the West while MBS, his tribe and his co-conspirators try to reshape and frack Africa and the Middle East. The "Arab Nato" is a collection of mercenaries and freebooters who are not bright and shiny.
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