“If you’d like a current global analogy, suppose the wealthiest oil exporters were suddenly taken over by Fire Eater radicals and out of hatred for President Trump’s “western values” stopped exporting oil.”
That’s close to what actually happened in 1973 (oil embargo). Nixon, not Trump, was president.
I am so thankful President Nixon did not decide to start a war and kill two percent of our nation’s then 212 million residents. That would have been the 1861 equivalent of four million dead.
President Nixon had his faults, but he did not gratuitously start wars.
Nixon was a man of peace (i.e., with China) but waged war when necessary, as in Vietnam.
He also supported Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war bringing the world to the very brink of nuclear war.
Fortunately, unlike idiot Davis at Fort Sumter, Soviet Brezhnev backed down and global holocaust was prevented.
Yom Kippur is the war which lead Arab OPEC countries to embargo their oil exports to the United States.
But again fortunately, unlike idiot Confederates in 1861, 1973 Arab OPEC countries did not provoke, start, declare & wage war against the United States.
Even in 1973 there were US bases in Arab OPEC countries which would have served as their own Fort Sumter, but wisely didn't.
That just miiiiiiiight be why Nixon didn't respond with military force, do you think?