@petergleick If the west insists on military confrontation, maybe it would be a good thing for there to evolve a united front from all oil producers, and Muslims, everywhere, to turn off the taps, completely, to USA, Russia and Israel. It might possibly halt aggression and loss of life and, as suggested, force realisation the entire World needs to cooperate, in peace, to generate renewable energy and fight climate change. The extant economic model needs complete reworking.