Is the European settlement the downfall to all 3rd world Countries?

Question

lran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela

Answer 1

If you are on about oil, none of those countries had any idea it was there till Europeans or Americans came along.  All of them were backward before.  Kuwait was a mud fort, so was Riyadh in present day Saudi.

Answer 2

The countries you mentioned were once world powers that were a threat to the rest of the world.  Europe spent over 1000 years in an attempt to contain these countries and in the end were successful.  The thing is, without a central leader to lead all of these countries with an iron fist, the different ethnic groups will be at each others throats.  I have also noticed that any country colonized by Spain is a third world country.