The democratic nominees for President need to sell the Green New Deal as a national security issue, mainly as a way to get us off of our oil addiction and out of the Middle East. Get away from needing to import oil (yes we still import a bunch of oil from the Saudis and others) and tell the whole Middle East to f*ck off. Why have sanctions on oil producing nations when you can eliminate the market for oil? Without a place to sell oil Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia would actually have to develop their economies, and they will find that is very difficult without that easy money from sitting in those oilfields. Crater the price of oil and watch the attitudes of these countries change.