Saudi Arabia’s UN participation was financially underwritten by US oil interests it opposed rhetorically

Evidence

While Baroody framed his opposition to Article 18 as a rejection of what Makau Mutua calls ‘proselytism, coupled with force and power’, there was nonetheless an irony to his advocacy of non-intervention. Whatever his own personal commitments, which were largely Arabist in tenor, Baroody represented a kingdom whose participation in the inaugural UN conference was funded by the US Oil Company Aramco, and which owed its existence as an independent state largely to these same US oil interests. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing work on how state autonomy narratives mask corporate funding — parallels Base Nation’s client-state basing chapters and the broader theme of rhetoric decoupled from material dependency. — connects to: Saudi Arabia’s UN participation was financed by the US oil company Aramco — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 138; Arabs became legally White only when US oil interests in Saudi Arabia demanded it

Broader Connections

• Saudi Arabia’s UN participation was financed by the US oil company Aramco #expands (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 138
• Arabs became legally White only when US oil interests in Saudi Arabia demanded it #responds-to (0.70)