On the other hand I would like to see a total war with US to see who has the upper hand
Really? You like to see several hundred million people die, reduce our earth to a smoldering rock, put back the progress of mankind by a thousand years?
I’ll pass on that one thanks.
And here’s the rub, using fossil fuels is a short term solution. When they run out, and they will, the USA will suddenly be a backwater in the global economy. it won’t have any renewable energy sources, as cheap fossil fuels will have made those sources un-economic to develop, whereas the rest of the world will, having met the challenge head on, be sitting pretty on a decade (at least) of well developed, well specified, and well used, renewables…