Hell we didn’t intervene when they went after Georgia. But I think we supplied Georgians secretly. Or is America at so sad of a point of being the World Superpower and now we bend the knee to Russia? What does Russia hold over us? A while back they found the nations biggest Lithium Mine in Arkansas. So on a tech front we should be leading. For the gas issue we can go back to the late 70’s when there was a shortage and issue coupons or whatever. I still hold out a light of hope for my America. But that light gets dimmer and dimmer everyday. Even voting seems like a BS exercise.
Honestly regarding your post I would suggest you watch the film Hypernormalization. I found it thought provoking and informative and it does deal a bit with geopolitics during the time period you mentioned.
In short, quite a lot happened!