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)
There was a split in the jew tribe about whether to support the communism project or to switch over to zionism. Most of the jews went over to Tel Aviv to back up zionism, some stayed to plunder Slavlands and they still play hardball with the western jews about handing over ussrlands to them. But yes, i should have been more clear. They do play every side, it's just that the priorities shifted.