Lol. yeah sure it was not there call. Japan that only thrived in American system due to Arabs (saved decades in development for Asia) sent its first Toyota LC to Pakistan and than Saudi. The same people arranged the meeting of US president with Saudi King who supported division of India.To because the Saudis were so weak, they couldn't let incompetent India stay together? LOL Not their call but interesting theory on Arab weakness.
American president of 150m people and fully independent in natural resources was meeting King of only 3million to discuss creation of Jewish state in an area control by British/Ottoman empires. that area has nothing to do with Saudi. This is called Soft Power.
On the 87th National Day, Sabq reviews the story of the first meeting between Abdulaziz and American Commander Roosevelt in 1945 on board an American ship. This meeting drew the map of alliances in the Middle East and laid the foundations for historical relations between the two countries, which were consolidated over decades.
He continues: The most important discussion they had at length was about the Palestinian issue and the planting of Jews in Palestine as an alternative country for the Jews. At the end of the meeting, they reached an agreement whereby America would provide military training and American support to the then-emerging Saudi Arabia in exchange for oil and political support in the region.
In 1954, the hand-me-down ‘Toyota Jeep BJ’ tag was replaced (Willys had since trademarked the name ‘Jeep’) with the descriptively memorable name Land Cruiser. This helped launch the vehicle into export markets, with Pakistan receiving the first shipment later that year and Saudi Arabia following in 1955.
Saudis untill recently had population smaller than Sweden ( A country that built fighters with external parts and engines). Comparing it with population of 1.4b having benefit of colonial education of hundreds of years.That proves nothing. That's just a fact that 2 countries that couldn't develop their own fighters had to buy them. Except today India can at least make some low level ones with imported engines and the Saudis still can't make a kite.