{"id":331982,"date":"2026-10-12T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331982"},"modified":"2026-10-12T06:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:31:37","slug":"saudi-arabia-has-always-been-a-vassal-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331982","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Has Always Been a Vassal State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 Oct 11, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The King of Saudi Arabia was literally on the payroll of the US and Britain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Were they leaving him so little from the sale of oil that he depended on an allowance?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wahhabism and the Legacy of Ibn Saud: 17 Shocking Revelations from British and US Secret Records<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muslimskeptic.com\/2026\/10\/11\/wahhabism-legacy-ibn-saud\/\">https:\/\/muslimskeptic.com\/2026\/10\/11\/wahhabism-legacy-ibn-saud\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Grok 4 \u2013 (Abridged by henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_331983\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ibn-saud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331983\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt size-full wp-image-331983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ibn-saud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ibn-saud.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ibn-saud-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-331983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Founder of Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz ibn Abd al-Rahman Al Saud (1876-1952)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Daniel Haqiqatjou&#8217;s October 11, 2026, essay on <em>Muslim Skeptic,<\/em><\/strong><em> &#8220;Wahhabism and the Legacy of Ibn Saud: 17 Shocking Revelations from British and US Secret Records,&#8221;<\/em> uses declassified British and American archival material to argue that the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emerged not as an independent Islamic revival but as a client state of Western imperial powers.<\/p>\n<p>The piece centers on Abdulaziz ibn Abd al-Rahman Al Saud (Ibn Saud, 1876-1952), founder of the third Saudi state, and contends that his alliance with Britain (and later the United States) facilitated the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the fragmentation of the Muslim world, and the geopolitical conditions that enabled the establishment of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on sources such as the Qatar Digital Library&#8217;s colonial collections, Philby&#8217;s accounts, and the Foreign Relations of the United States series, Haqiqatjou presents seventeen numbered revelations that portray Ibn Saud as a willing vassal who subordinated religious principle and Arab unity to British and American strategic interests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2026\/10\/-wahhabism-and-the-legacy-of-i.html\">Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King of Saudi Arabia was literally on the payroll of the US and Britain. 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