Why are you making up false claims? Who said anything about being proud of having many natural resources or that this is an achievement? No other than you. You are making that up.
Yes, and had it not been for Western technology you would not be able to have any economic boom. Since all your economic foundations are based on Western technology.
No, not highly dependent. KSA can themselves chose which economic politic they want to implement. One based on natural resources or the opposite. KSA and the other GCC states have enough of money to get nearly all they want. It just takes time.
Anyway let me remind you of this before you, as earlier in the debate, started to talk about who would be better off without any natural resources.
Read it carefully.
"This means that your compatriot is in no position to claim that region x or y outside of the Western world would be better had none of those non-Western regions been exposed to Western technology. There is no pretext for this. In fact the Arab Islamic Caliphates and Al-Andalus gave much more to the world than the Ottomans which did very little in terms of poetry, science etc. We are talking about hundreds of inventions and enormous contributions to science and other fields. Those were the learning centers of the old world at that period. Turkey never had a similar position or any Turkic civilization.
Hence why the Islamic Golden Age took place during the previous Caliphates. It was the zenith of Muslim rule culturally, economically, militarily etc. We did not need Turks for this. All this happened under Arab rule.
Islamic Golden Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So he should avoid making such false comments."
