How Qatar Became the World's Most OP Country

I worked really, really hard this past month on the latest episode in Modern Conflicts dealing with the terrible civil war in Yemen. It also marks the 20th episode I have published in this series, with more than 7 hours of additional combined content on other 21st-century conflicts. The best way to watch them is through the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle deal, and they're currently running an amazing holiday sale that makes it just $11.59 for the entire year to both sites here: curiositystream.com/?coupon=reallifelore

The amount of work that went into putting this video together is truly impressive.

As a UK resident, I knew about them owning Harrods but I had no idea how deeply invested the wealthy Qataris in London, especially Canary Wharf's buildings where most investment banks are situated, & Heathrow Airport. Love the presentation of the data, and the use of maps to help me understand the geopolitical aspect better!

I lived there during the 80s and early 90s (Until the first Gulf War), I was around 14yrs old. There were no skyscrapers then. The tallest building was the National Bank (4-6 stories, I honestly can't remember), the only Supermarket was aptly named "The Center" and it was pretty modern even then. The kiosk in the car park served the best lamb kebabs that I have ever had in my life, (I can still taste them if I close my eyes). The Falcon Club was just over the road from where I lived, and it's where I spent most of my time. It's all gone now, and replaced by sky scrapers and sports stadiums. Even as a Brit, they were some of the best times of my life. My friend (who had a wooden miniramp in his front garden) and I must have been the only skateboarders in the whole country, or so we thought until we bumped into a bunch of Norwegian kids one day who had built their own quarter pipe in their school yard. Good times.

I’m qatari and honestly this is the first time I’ve ever seen anybody actually make a video about our country, let alone research and go out of their way to talk about it. most people didn’t even know we existed until the World Cup. thank you

Thank you for also mentioning Yemen (and many other unpopular news like Uyghur, etc, in your Nebula channel). It is definitely the most overlooked situation just because it happens in the Middle East, in the Muslim world, and not related to any Western countries. You are one of the few creators who actually try to bring balance to the world.

Love how the northern side of the Persian gas field is called south field and the southern is the north field 🗿 Edit: Thanks for all the likes ☺️

Great job.! More real and detailed information I never realized. The options away from Youtube are fantastic and so worth the small cost.

just wow! the amount of work that you people did. Hats off! amazing video.

I love the companion animations you put in your videos, the maps tremendously help me understand the geopolitical aspect of those issues

You strike an extraordinary balance between a clear and concise description of the events and personal opinion. Many in your place would simply settle to be the next regular upload-popular-repetitive-narrated Wikipedia article-channel. I very much appreciate the risk you're taking by taking a firm stance on some of these issues, while not letting it overpower the videos. Well done and thank you.

Fantastic video as always. I did find it pretty funny though when you mentioned that the expansion of Qatar's gas operations would allow them to keep the #1 exporter title "indefinitely", as if that gas isn't very definitely finite.

you have taught me so much about geopolitics, thank you for your contribution to society and my life.

Great video. I lived in Qatar as a contractor working at Al Udeid. It's amazing to think it was a seasonally inhabited backwater where people would make a living diving for pearls off coast, compared to what it is now. There's a museum in Doha that shows the growth of that city, and even as recently as 1960, it was just a village.

One of the Qatar'i prince's used to go to a private school near me in the UK. he owned the worlds largest variant of the 747 jumbojet and used to just fly to a small airport and back very often.

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Good, unbiased coverage, and covering sufficient details.

These videos just keep getting better and better. Thank you for what you do! 👏

Didn't expect Qatar to be the next video, keep up the good work!

A very good presentation, thank you for the graphics, it helps give an idea of the geography of the potential bottle necks. Also the explanation of the war in Yemen and the difference between Sunni and Shia perspectives. Your hard work is much appreciated.