They’ll never use those resources to bring the country up though. They have the best arable land to population ratio by far yet there are tons of people starving and malnutritioned. They have the most plentiful oil fields yet gas prices are unaffordable for many Americans

Those resources will empower individual people and not the country. It’s a different scenario to China or Russia where those resources has been nationalized to bring up the standard and quality of living of everybody