You got downvoted, but that's basically the view that Peter Zeihan takes in his book "Accidental Superpower". It's reasonable to assume that if the US becomes

You got downvoted, but that's basically the view that Peter Zeihan takes in his book "Accidental Superpower". It's reasonable to assume that if the US becomes insular enough, and self-sufficient enough in energy, that such a thing could become true. Not a popular thought, but definitely a possibility.