Corruptistan
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Am I missing something ? I always thought the Gulf Arabs were poor on human resources. Maybe things have changed
You thought wrong, my Indian friend. Arabs are a civilizational people. The oldest civilizations and cultures in the world are located in the Arab world. Science literally emerged in the Arab world. Arabs during the Islamic Golden Age state pioneered science for 500 years until the Sack of Baghdad in 1258.
Ever wondered why astronomy, medicine etc. is full of words of Arabic origin?
Just a free educational service for you and others. Saudi Arabias are NOT "Gulf Arabs".
It was and is naturally that smaller populated Gulf Arab states (Khaleeji in Arabic) such as Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman etc. have problems with manpower (which would be naturally for any country which such relatively small local populations) but that does not go for KSA with almost 30 million natives and with a population that is growing.
In any case to the defense of the smaller GCC states, their local populations are some of the most educated pr. capita as a consequence and are PUNCHING WAY ABOVE their population as such. Wealth of natural resources is helping here as well as well as them welcoming millions of expats to settle in their countries. Their populations are growing as well.
Maybe true.
Fact of the matter is that the GCC doesn't face the security challenges that we do.
The arabian peninsula has natural water barrier,
and west side is managed through friendly countries.
I disagree. Yemen is basically their Afghanistan, notoriously unstable Horn of Africa with a rising regional power like Ethiopia that is approaching a 200 million big population, Africa as a whole having an enormous population growth that is also the largest in the world by far (which is both negative and positive for Arabs - in this case the Arabs of the GCC), 1 country in Africa alone such as Nigeria will likely have a population the size of Pakistan and Bangladesh combined in the not so distant future, you can imagine the potential problems with illegal migrants that GCC might face, KSA is already flooded with illegal African migrants - KSA is routinely deporting 20.000 + illegals on a weekly basis - enough said, nuclear armed Israel that will always be favored by the US (until demographics change in that country which they eventually will as well), the potential problem/challenge of Mullah-ruled Iran meddling in the Arab world and vicinity (Iraq + Yemen), Turkey not far away with their own plans, potentially unstable 110 million big Egypt next door, Sudan similarly etc.
As such far from an ideal or stable neighborhood. If anything nothing compared to the peaceful/problem-free location of for instance countries like the UK, Australia etc.
Of course looking at West Asia as a whole, the Arabian Peninsula probably has the best geopolitically strategic location overall, also in regards to natural geographical barriers, but the immediate area paints a very different picture.
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