It is also not just the US. Russia, Saudia Arabia, UAE and Iran are all petrostates, which have a long history of exporting war. Not quite on the same level as the US, but still a lot. When you add that up about half the wars are oil wars in this century.
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You might find https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamic-limits-of-human relevant.
In what way is it relevant? (I read the opening paragraphs, and do not see the connection.)
The relevance is in the assumpion is that renewable infrastructure can be built and maintained without fossils and that energy is fungible, so that electricity can substitute all fossil use and sustain a technological society in general.