255. Saudi Arabia x Silicon Valley (ft. Jonathan Guyer)
This Machine Kills
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Saudi Arabia: A Bizarre and Interesting Country
Saudi Arabia in a lot of ways is an extremely interesting country just like in terms of its geopolitics. It does not have the size or like militaristic power, geopolitical power to be a like a hegemon. But what it does have is a lot of capital that it can spin to project that softer power outside of itself and ingratiate itself to these other kind of centers of material power in the world. And I don't really think of any other country that has that kind of position or has that type of ability.
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