• by 1945, the kingdom as turning into a 'virtual protectorate' of America (Vitalis, 9)
• Americans began to migrate to the Hasa coast, started to arm and train Al Saud's warriors (against British)
• US "Economic imperialism"
• "it is difficult to imagine an emerging American-Saudi Arabian special relationship in WW2 in the absence of the oil companies' investment there" (Vitalis, 11)
• "rentierism" (Ok, 296) prominent: "financial autonomy of oil states grants them immunity from social pressure", another - no necessary link
• foster political opposition of the way revenues are deployed
• rentier state depends on revenues from abroad (rent) (Ok, 296)- directly to the state, not private
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