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David Bell

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Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

We should stay out of nature's way, but yeah, it's who's doing it.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

And again, it's clearly that they're just like, they started with like, he clearly someone who was like wall city.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

That's cool.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Right.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

And that's a great idea.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

They went from there.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

We may do a dedicated episode about this later because we didn't have time in this, but this is impossible.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

The project is already run into terminal issues.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Like, it isβ€”cost overflows are massive.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

The kingdom's financial situation today is still not good because, againβ€”

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Every effort to transition off of being entirely reliant on oil money has failed.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

And they never really got over a lot of these central issues that were massive problems for the country when MBS took power.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Like they've been patching over them, but there's still problems.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

And the goal was to get a bunch of foreign investment to make this thing possible.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Again, they were looking at $500 billion, and it's likely it'll cost way more than that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

If they were to actually finish this thing, they've dug a bunch of holes.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

They've started construction.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's never going to get built.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's impossible.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

They're starting with the conclusion and not getting there.