A unilateral blockade.
Nuclear weapons cannot be used for most conflicts.
But about 30 middle East countries discovered they can bring the highly leveraged US to their knees by mining/drone attacking the two middle east shipping chokepoints.
Strait of Hormuz — Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates; very near: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq
Bab el-Mandeb — Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea; very near: Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Oman
(maybe add the straits of singapore too)
To the nationalists, this is a great thing.
International trade has been an inarguable disaster. And once we've severed ourselves out of being the committed fist of globalism, the United States actually needs very little from such trade. We possess the capacity to be a largely independent and self sufficient nation.
For all their posturing it was Europe and China that needed the Strait open. It is they who depend on international shipping.
Anyone who uses this thing called 'oil' needs the strait open. It's remarkable how many people don't understand what an 'international oil market' means.
No. Anyone whose idiotic socialist government made them dependent on external energy needs the strait open. Or anyone whose economy depends on selling oil to the aforementioned idiots.
There's not much of a difference between 'external energy' and 'internal energy'. You're still paying $200 a barrel if the price skyrockets. Problem is, you just don't understand economics.
There's an enormous difference. Firstly being resiliency. This isn't hard, so either you're dumber than I thought or you're just feigning ignorance again.