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Egypt’s new ruler, Field Marshal Sisi, is fawned over by the West, who see him as a vital intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians. Without Riyadh’s approval, there would probably be no President Sisi: Egypt is dependent on Saudi money. The
Lyndon B. Johnson gradually improvised such a strategy over the next year: it obtained Congressional authorization to take whatever measures were necessary to save South Vietnam, and then—after Johnson’s
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Despite the enormous wealth of the Gulf States, the Arab world has experienced little or no industrial revolution. At its core it remains backward-looking and feudal in structure, with the oil paying for an army of foreigners to keep the economic wheels turning
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