[sukhoi-30mki]

However there’s one big distinction there.

Germany and Japan for all the Axis power propaganda were essentially lone rangers with no realistic allies. China has created an alliance of rogue states at vital locations, including with nuclear weapons.

Draw a line from Iran via Pakistan via Myanmar via North Korea. They seem conveniently close to China’s oil routes from the Gulf.

[American Constitutionalist]

If we can produce our own oil and gas, the gulf will lose it's importance in the long run other than oil prices rising on the world markets, but from a military perspective, it's a strategic advantage to have your own oil fields. i.e. North Dakota oil boom going on now.
How hard would it be ? for us to convert out diesel powered ships and military equipment to natural gas ?

We are now exporting more oil and natural gas than we ever have in the last 30 years.