Since 2016, Mohamed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, announced his economic vision 2030 to save the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the crises of the oil-dependent economy. He promised the Saudi people that he will earn hundreds of billions of dollars from his innovative plan every year, including the city of Neom project which he promised to finish its first phase by 2025, and then he took back his false promises.
Bin Salman’s vision is purely imaginary promises aimed to occupy public opinion after he led a coup with the support of his father, King Salman.
Over the past two years, the government of Saudi Arabia invested tens of billions of dollars in economic sectors within the USA. This was revealed during a meeting between the former US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman when Trump showed MBS a list of weapons that the USA began to manufacture specifically for Saudi Arabia.
Trump considered this money as nothing compared to wealth of the Kingdom. MBS in fact bought these arms to protect his regime from falling.
MBS responded to the words of the former US president with a faint smile, behind which he concealed his abject failure in advancing the Kingdom’s economy and ridding it of its successive economic crises since he assumed the mandate.
If MBS’s promises to develop the Kingdom’s economy were true as he claimed, then why did he invest in American economic sectors, instead of investing in production sectors within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
He did that at a time when unemployment rates were rising to record numbers compared to previous years, and while low unemployment rates were achieved in the USA; thanks to the hundreds of billions of dollars paid by MBS and invested by Trump, to provide job opportunities for the American youth as he tweeted upon his return from Saudi Arabia, saying “I brought you jobs!”, in reference to the contracts signed with the Saudi government worth 450 billion dollars.
The question now is whether bin Salman is still held to his false promises to the people of the Kingdom? and are the investments made out of the money and lands of Saudi people made in the name of the people or in the name of the Crown Prince and his father, King Salman?
