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.
we don't need to bend to the whims of any "international" market, we have shitloads of oil at home.
For a bunch that pretends to be capitalist, you sure have difficulty understanding how it works.
If the international oil market says that oil is $200, then foreign buyers will be willing to pay up to $200 for oil, including American oil. This means that you will be paying $200 for oil. The "we produced this at home" participation trophy won't do you any good when you're consuming that oil as an input.
Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services. It is an explicitly individualist metric, measurable by how much choice the individual has in their conduct of trade.
It is not internationalist banking cartels comprised of foreigners zeroing out your choices for you.
In point of fact the latter has far more in common with centralized economies than with capitalism.
But you're a leftist so you believe that the presence or claim of profit equates to capitalism, because you use that word as a boogeyman.