What created the massive reserve, and why does the middle east have so much oil?
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The large financial reserves are from selling oil. The “large oil reserves” are a fancy way of saying they have a lot of oil.
Middle east has oil because of geological and climate things that happened millions of years ago.
In fact, Middle East is only important because of that oil. There are plenty of other places with endless & bloody civil wars or religious conflicts (Yemen, Somali, Congo, Libya etc.), and they receive a lot less attention precisely b/c they have no effect on global economy.
Moreover, if all that oil ended up somewhere else, there would be dictatorships and conflict there.
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