User blog comment:UndeadHero/My timeline needs you! TO OPININATE!/@comment-4671144-20120529174619

You want to know what you might be able to do. During the 70s, many Middle Eastern Nations stopped sending oil to the US and it's allies because of their support of Israel. You could have a timeline where the Soviets decided to invade Alaska and cut off one of the US's sources of Oil.