We think the answer is obvious, but in any case, the time required to respond militarily will not afford us the luxury to wait. And the excess capacity of the remaining member-nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries today is essentially zero, so they can provide little if any relief. We don't even need to manufacture much of a provocation. Such as the real-world children, more than half a million so far, who have starved to death due to the Draconian sanctions imposed by the US and Britain, with support from the United Nations. The imperial style of leadership is everywhere apparent, and a new age is upon us.
War is an interlude.
When war comes it is a civilian business, conducted under the advice of military experts. Both in peace and war military experts are excluded from civilian decisions. Its life is in the hands of the General Staff and war is supremely a military business, requiring of the civilian only acquiescence and loyalty. Divested of any political constraints, for the next four years the most rapacious and arrogant ruling elite in world history will be unleashed, and feelling free to pillage and plunder its way around the world. It's as simple, and evil, as that.