Thomas Friedman thinks "its not worth it".
Thomas Friedman also stated working with China to fight a common interest which is disorder and vacuums, humans don't understand it well, I do tho, I love the study of chaos due to being exposed to it in the 90s as a diaspora in Mogadishu.
Listen the threats that can emerge from such place is expontential because the human mind isn't in comfort like Saudi, something switches in their brain or chaos natural selection I call which can then be used in their own developed world countries vicious ideas that can funnel thru media, social.media, or even migrations that come.They essentially see this edge when they see your locals dumbed down due to comfort. We know all empires ended to a war conditioned people as they can't even contemplate the ideas and tactics these guys can create.
The guy isn't conditioned with their comfort mindset, that switch or brain has gone into another dimension which threatens globally stability and prosperity. It's well known Scotland enlightenment comes from backdrop of social order that was in chaos in the 17th century and they boomed. Renaissance is the same.
Their creating conditions in countries that could essentially flip the world we know over time and gradually and incrementally because the brain has adapted to another condition and if his calculated and a psychopath, the world is in big trouble.