This is how WWII started with Japan. We embargoed oil shipments to Japan and tried to cut off their other oil supplies.
Now we are attempting the same thing only to China instead.
Oh and what is the one thing that could really help Islam around the world ? That would be a US China war. It would be between the two most important countries in world leaving a huge power vacuum. It would be the end of Capitalism, Buddism and Christianity leaving what ? Sharia Law and Islam.
We embargoed Japan AFTER they invaded China.
Not quite.
Japan had already decided, and begun preparations, to go to war with the US in the early ‘20s.
The embargoes of oil and metals, brought on by the Japanese Rape of Nanking by Japanese forces, only served to make the Japanese that much less capable once they begun the war.