"Saudi" Arabia is a colonialist project created by the racist British/US empires, which prop up the parasitic monarchy and oppress the people of Arabia to control their oil.

But comprador-bourgeois liberals with cushy NGO/academic jobs will always erase imperialism with "nuance" https://twitter.com/danaelkurd/status/1246871037087711237

The British and US empires protect the "Saudi" Arabian dictatorship and use it as a proxy to cultivate Wahhabi contras to kill communists & Arab nationalists and overthrow independent anti-imperialist republics, all to control the region and its resources https://www.history.com/news/fdr-saudi-arabia-king-oil

While comprador-bourgeois liberals want us to be "nuanced" with imperialism, the real resistance called itself the Popular Front for the Liberation of the *Occupied Arabian Gulf*. They recognized the Gulf monarchies as illegitimate imperialist puppets
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_the_Occupied_Arabian_Gulf

If it weren't for imperialism, the people of the occupied Arabian Gulf would have overthrown their puppet monarchies decades ago, as the peoples of Libya, Syria, and Iraq did in revolutions (and have been punished ever since)

The "Saudi" monarchy has as much legitimacy as Guaidó