As Russia, and OPEC are learning, if you don't have money, you don't have influence, whether you are a country or an individual. Oil wealth still has the potential to be the most potent power in the world. Nuke missiles don't really cut it, because the other side will retaliate. Mutually assured destruction is a bummer. The first order of business is to create an orderly and mutually profitable oil market.
Extraordinary actions call for extraordinary men.
The world is without leadership. Leadership requires ideals that stimulate and energize people. Neither religious models that require force and punishments, nor pure money making ultimately succeed because both result in the loss of basic human rights and freedoms. Chavez Frias has the potential to fill that gap, but he won't be pleasing to a lot of people. He will make some folks happy, and some very unhappy.