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The name “Saudi” Arabia was invented by a mid-level British bureaucrat circa 1915. But if you ask Gemini for the details, it will deny the claim. Instead, it will trumpet the official myth that King Abdulaziz named the country after himself, Trump-style, in 1932. (Who doubts that after Trump names all the oceans after himself, and grifts his way to owning most of his country’s wealth, he will rename his bankrupt nation “Trumpy America”?)

If you prod it long enough, Gemini will eventually discover The Creation of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914–1927 by Dr. Askar H. Al-Enazy. Contradicting its earlier statements insisting that it’s just a social-media-driven conspiracy theory, Gemini admits:

While Abdulaziz and his council legally enacted the royal decree renaming the country in 1932, British imperial files prove that mid-level colonial bureaucrats had already invented and formalized “Saudi Arabia” as a geopolitical descriptor in Western diplomacy decades prior.

So it’s true: “Saudi” Arabia was invented and named by British bureaucrats. The Arabs themselves were just bit players in a colonial drama.

The Ibn Saud clan was always just a gang of unusually nasty bedouins from the Najd desert who made their living robbing and killing pilgrims on their way to and from Mecca. In 1744, Muhammad ibn Saud teamed up with vitriolic preacher Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to create a religious pretext for the ongoing banditry. According to Abd al-Wahhab, almost all Muslims besides himself and his followers were heretics who deserved to be robbed and killed.

The British imperialists were delighted. They quickly turned the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance into brigade of anti-Muslim mercenaries—a sword aimed at the throat of the Muslim world in general and the Ottoman Caliphate in particular. For the most part, that has been the Saudi-Wahhabi role ever since. (The Americans took over the arrangement from the British after World War II.)

For a wonderful fictional description of the 20th-century history of “Saudi” Arabia, read Abdul Rahman Munif’s Cities of Salt novels. And for the short version, see Zafar Bangash’s essay “How Abdul Aziz proclaimed himself king of Najd and the Hijaz and renamed it ‘Saudi Arabia’.”

It’s also worth mentioning the conspiracy theories linking the Ibn Sauds to Sabbatean satanists in general and the crypto-Jewish Donmeh in particular. Are the Ibn Sauds not just desert bandits, but crypto-Jewish satanists? Wayne Madsen writes of the “the close intelligence and military links between the Dönmeh-descendent Sauds and Wahhabis in Arabia” and Israel, as well as other regional Israel-penetrated governments.

For decades, dissidents and experts alike have been predicting the fall of the Saudi dynasty. Through some combination of wily leadership, sheer luck, and help from the United States (and perhaps Israel) it hasn’t happened yet.

But epochal wars in the region are setting the stage for what could be the Ibn Sauds’ last act. The acting Saudi ruler, Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), unwisely tied his leadership claim to a losing war on Yemen. It began in January 2015, when his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, acceded to the throne, and immediately appointed MBS as Minister of Defense. Two months after the appointment, MBS attacked Yemen. The ill-starred war gave MBS emergency powers, which he used to make himself de facto ruler (as commander of the military) two years before he was officially elevated to Crown Prince in 2017.

MBS’s genocidal war on Yemen, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people due to starvation and other forms of deprivation, has become the Crown Prince’s Vietnam. But that comparison is misleading: The Yemeni quagmire is even worse than Vietnam, in that Yemen is not just failing to buckle under the pressure of brutal Saudi bombings and a starvation blockade, it is hammering critically important Saudi targets—including the oil infrastructure that pays the salaries of the Uzi-and-chainsaw-wielding thugs who keep MBS in power.

This week, Yemen’s Ansurullah forces devastated the headquarters of Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company. With Saudi oil exports choked off to the east by Iran’s control of Hormuz, and to the west by Yemen’s recently-enhanced power over Bab al-Mandab, and the bills for MBS’s failed grandiose projects coming due, the stage is being set for a potential regime change. The Yemenis have also shut down Saudi airports in tit-for-tat retaliation strikes, while making territorial gains that could see Yemen regaining territory from Saudi Arabia. Former MI6 advisor and diplomat Alastair Crooke speculates:

Might the Saudi Kingdom experience a revolt against MbS? Such a possibility is not without precedent: When King Saud’s reckless governance threatened the monarchy’s survival in 1964, the family, senior princes, and the religious leadership stepped in to strip him of power and enforce his abdication.

In the event of the collapse of MbS-led al-Saud family rule, this would not only topple the Gulf colonial project, but would then initiate a scramble for a fundamental geopolitical re-alignment of the region.

For more on the checkered future of the Ibn Saud dynasty, I recommend Ron Unz’s new article, which links analyses by Prof. Mohammad Marandi, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, and Chas Freeman, as well as Alaistair Crooke.

Excerpt from False Flag Weekly News with E. Michael Jones

Kevin Barrett: Here in Saidia, Morocco, if you get down to the beach at 9 a.m., you can buy fresh fish. But over there at Hormuz, you can buy fresh iPhones, just caught. They’re as fresh as they get. Yeah, I’m at the wrong beach, that’s for sure.

And here’s what’s happening under the water.

Everybody’s having a good time except Trump. Trump is obviously not happy about how “Trump Strait” is playing out. And if he decides to bomb Iran with the mother of all bombs, or the bother of all moms, Iran has a target list: They’re going to hit lots of bridges, apparently. They’re targeting bridges in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Oman, Jordan, and, last but not least, the genocidal Zionist entity. They’re all going to lose bridges. So you think Trump’s going to go ahead and drop the MOM? They say Trump actually begged the Iranians to let him drop the mother of all bombs on Pickaxe Mountain and promise not to retaliate. And the Iranians told him to go take a flying leap into the Strait of Hormuz.

E. Michael Jones: Well, that was the original back and forth years ago when they arranged to have military bases bombed tit for tat. But we’re beyond that. Every time Trump goes forward, he ruins a relationship that he had before. And so now we’ve reached the point of the fundamental existential question for both America and Saudi Arabia: Is Trump going to defend the Saudis? Or is he going to tell them over the phone, “that’s your problem,” and end the relationship that basically was one of the fundamental pillars of America’s Third Republic, which is American military might guaranteeing the flow of oil to the United States to fuel its industry and the interstate highway system and all the cars that drive on?

Kevin Barrett: And don’t forget the petrodollar.

E. Michael Jones: The petrodollar, yes.

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, “Arabia versus the Ibn Sauds”: That’s the theme this week. And Aramco headquarters has supposedly taken massive damage. American and Western media outlets are now admitting it. That happened a couple of days ago.

Aramco being the Saudi state oil company that’s partly owned by Western oil interests. It used to be totally owned by Western oil interests. And then they let the Saudis in on a little bit of the action.

The so-called Houthis, that is, the Ansarullah government of Yemen, which is the legitimate government of Yemen, is fighting against Saudi occupation. It is more than holding its own against one of the world’s richest countries with much of the world’s most expensive weaponry. How are they doing it, Mike?

E. Michael Jones: Because there’s an asymmetrical relationship between the obsolete military technologies of the Third Republic and the state-of-the-art military technology of the beginning of the Fourth Republic. So it doesn’t matter how much money you spend. If you spend it on an obsolete weapon like the aircraft carrier, you’re going to be defenseless.

We have reached a situation where there are only offensive weapons, which means anybody can destroy anything on the face of the earth, and no one can defend against it.

Nobody can do anything about it. Well, I guess we’re all in the same boat then.

Kevin Barrett: Although, if you have Pickaxe Mountain above your installations, you’re better off than if you don’t, I guess. So here are the Saudi air defenses at work.

Missed. Oh, well. That’s the Saudi air defenses.

And meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is supposedly getting shaky in terms of their government. We mentioned the coup de cat at the beginning.

And part of the reason is that they’re really not very nice to a lot of their citizens. This guy was a teenager when he was arrested for going to protests and then funerals of martyrs.

And so they’re still going to execute him. I guess they aren’t going to live stream it like Trump wants to do, but still. Human rights pariah, not quite like the genocidal entity, but still. The Mecca Pact was trying to redraw the region without Israel, we thought, with Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia working together.

But Saudi Arabia is looking like the weak leg of that partnership. So, Mike, are Pakistan and Turkey going to come to the Saudis’ rescue?

E. Michael Jones: Well, no one else is, and the Saudis have a lot of money, but they don’t have people. So again, we’re at the fundamental issue about money, which is the primary fetish that Marx described in Capitalism. People think that money can act. Shylock in The Merchant of Venice said “my ducats can copulate faster than Laban’s ewes and rams.”

Well, the real story here is the story of Midas, who had a lot of gold. As a matter of fact, he had the golden touch, which meant anything he touched would turn to gold, which meant he would starve to death because as soon as he picked up a sandwich, it would turn to gold.

So what we’re realizing here is that labor is the source of all value, and labor can only be performed by human beings, and all you can do with money is pay someone to work. So if you don’t have people, you can’t have labor, and that is precisely the situation that Saudi Arabia is in. They’re going to have to pay for mercenaries who come from Pakistan and Turkey to defend them. And those military alliances are fragile, especially if you think you’re going to sign on to support a loser, if you’re going to support the Titanic just before it hits the iceberg. What we’re seeing is in the Persian Gulf, all of those people now have to make a deal with Iran, because the United States has proven totally ineffectual in protecting them.

Kevin Barrett: I agree. And you and Marx are on the same page with the labor theory of value. I think that was one of the things that Marx got right. And the Saudis are not very good at labor, so all of that oil that’s under their sand isn’t really theirs.

And this piece by Alistair Crook, the former high-level British MI6 guy and diplomat, provides the theme of this week’s show, which is that MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, is at risk internally, and not just from his pet cat with all of those Uzis. There are other people probably thinking about other ways of ruling the Arabian Peninsula.

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, Crooke had an interesting podcast where he comes on and he’s just kind of just a sad, sad man who said, all we’re witnessing is moral collapse, the collapse of morality when it comes to the role of government in the world.

A man who was a diplomat, who’s lived through a lot of this period leading up to this. So if morality collapses, then the only thing that’s left is force. And if you don’t have the force, you don’t have the power any more. And that’s precisely what is happening in Saudi Arabia. Where’s the force?

Kevin Barrett: He’s got guys with chainsaws.

E. Michael Jones: Where’s the force? Okay, you can chop people up, which is what they did with that journalist, Khashoggi. Chopped him up. Yeah, okay. Chop them up.

So across the board now, you’re seeing desperation as the source of strategy or the source of behavior, the guide for behavior, across the board.

And I’m saying the Israelis are in exactly the same situation as the Saudis right now. They are desperate. And when you’re desperate, the first reaction is to lash out. So we have this absolutely deranged type of vengeance and freaking out on the part of the Israeli talking heads among the Americans. You know, like Mark Levin, “nuke them, nuke them.”

And there is same type of desperation in Saudi Arabia, where they’re going to murder or execute a Shia. Bad idea. That split has never healed. When I met with the Ayatollah Shahrud in Golestan, the first thing he started talking about was the Saudis and how bad they were, awful people.

They still haven’t gotten over it after 1,500 years. So now, what’s going to happen now if you, in Bahrain, where the elite is Sunni and the majority of people are Shia? What’s going to happen there? Not a good idea.

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, there could be a regime change in Bahrain as well as in Saudi Arabia. And possibly a couple of other places as well. Kuwait is thought of by many as a province of Iraq, which is itself a province of what was the Ottoman Caliphate. So it’s possible that these borders are going to get redrawn.

And here is a deep dive from Daniel Haqiqatjou of the MuslimSkeptic website on Wahhabism and the legacy of Ibn Saud. The Ibn Saud family basically were warlords who made their living murdering and robbing pilgrims to Mecca. And then they hooked up with the Wahhabis, Abdul Wahhab, who said everybody but him was a heretic, so you could kill and rob them. And so the Ibn Sauds said, “hey, that sounds good. You can be our family theologian.” And at that point, then the British said, “Wow, this is great. We’ve got Muslims who want to kill and rob other Muslims. Let’s weaponize them, give them money and guns.” And that’s really where the Ibn Saud family started. But it looks like it may be nearing the end of its run.

E. Michael Jones: It’s similar to British history. What are we talking about? The Reformation, where you have a kind of—instead of Islamic Calvinism of the sort that Wahhabism is, you’ve got English Calvinism, which is the most radical form of the Protestant Reformation that basically takes over England during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s and leaves a legacy behind that is disastrous…certainly disastrous for the Irish. With Cromwell and Drogheda, but disastrous for Americans well, because they provided an untenable ideology as the basic identity of America. I’m talking about Massachusetts, which won the war with Virginia. Massachusetts as the Calvinist enterprise in America, and the legacy of Sola Scriptura, which means I am Gideon, and you’re Amalek, so we can exterminate you, which led to the extermination of the Indians. It’s been a disaster, a disaster. We need some type of stability, some type of intellectual moral stability, as Crooke mentioned in his sad podcast.

Kevin Barrett: Well, you know, Mike, I think you’re onto something with that comparison between the Wahhabis and the extremist Puritans. And indeed, the looting and the extreme religious ideology behind some of it actually does bear comparison. And the Old Testament being misinterpreted by people like that.

E. Michael Jones: I know you’re a Marcionite. I know you’re a Marcionite!

Kevin Barrett: I’m worse than that. I’m a Unitarian Marcionite with a camel!

E. Michael Jones: But that’s not the orthodox interpretation of the Old Testament. Marcion was a heretic. But anyway, that’s another story…

(The full transcript is available at my Substack.)