In declining oil world, our favourite oil money military hegemon wants to diminish all other nations consumption of fossil fuel energy. Iraq and Libya were cut down. Afghanistan was stunted. The geopolitical oil centre is still the ME. As China still buys lots of Middle East oil, with its resources and manufacture size, it’s ambitions and consumption have to be curtailed, by the USA, with war and sanctions. Sanctions are energy consumption warfare. Russia is at war defending its geopolitical centrality, and encroachment of its resources by the USA and NATO, is also undergoing war contraction and sanctions.