WI: The US seizes Arab oil fields during 1973 oil embargo?

Exactly as it says on the tin. The US was actually considering seizing oil fields in the Gulf States due to the economic effects of the oil embargo and the threat it presented to its energy security.

What would be the effects on a national and international scale?
 
Exactly as it says on the tin. The US was actually considering seizing oil fields in the Gulf States due to the economic effects of the oil embargo and the threat it presented to its energy security.

What would be the effects on a national and international scale?

two words.

Blow Back.
not only would it mostly likely push the Gulf states into the Soviet orbit, but it might also have the awesome effect of creating an earlier Islamist political discourse
 
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