Our embargo of Japan was the reason Japan felt it had to attack the US.
The Civil War started because the North decided to tax the crap out of the South, and the South didn’t see the legislative process being able to correct that.
If your goal is to launch a war in which the Shiites finally wipe out the Sunnis, this is the way to do it.
The Russians will say they had ‘no choice’ but to bomb Saudi Arabia, and because they are a petro-state, the KSA’s artificial manipulation of the market was the reason why the pumping had to stop. That the Iranians were motivated to invade the KSA through Southern Iraq was just precipitous.
The weird part - Valerie Jarrett and Huma Abedin are both Iranian.
Obama needed latitude after the election. Putin needed to be thrown into the briar patch. This will do it.
The KSA may be on fire before Christmas.
Israel will get the message. It’s over between us.
*sigh* Very plausible.