March 1974. King Faisal is assassinated hours before Saudi Arabia can lift the oil embargo. In this timeline, the embargo never ends. Gas lines stretch for miles. American cities go dark. And one year later, U.S. paratroopers seize foreign oil fields under the banner of “economic survival.” What begins as a temporary operation becomes something far worse: occupation, indoctrination, and a generation of blowback that culminates on a September morning decades later.

Was the comfort worth the cost? Or did we trade short-term power for a lifetime of war?

This is the Archivist’s account of Endless Embargo.

Listen now—if you’re ready.