OK wait a minute, lets go back to the original question...
Just wondering... would three countries (or maybe include a fourth muslim country also) coordinate their efforts to distract the USA, let’s say in Korea with a “military action”, then China or Russia would make their move on what is really attainable in their eyes... (Spratly? Taiwan? Crimea?)
Absolutely.
But you’re a little off. Russia and China have been talking recently, big problem...they’ve been enemies for a long time now they’re making trade deals???
But what’s the target? US of course.
Forget Taiwan, Crimea...Russia already has Crimea. China will overlook Taiwan it’s not their primary target.
Russia and China both have a common target...the good ol US of A. When they start talking, we’re in trouble. And they started talking last year.
They don’t even need a distraction, the middle east is already doing a good job of that. Plus internal squabbles here in the US...Hillary, IRS, VA, illegal immigration, black lives matter...
Now North Korea is acting frisky again, nothing new, but they hate us too and what if they have been talking to either behind the scenes??? Would Russia and/or China use them as a decoy? Yep.
And now we’re looking down the barrel of a serious economic crisis. That might actually be a good thing, looks like China might go the way of Greece pretty soon, that would mean they probably couldn’t launch a serious military effort against anybody.
Then again, it might also start a domino effect, and we’re not in any kind of shape to withstand it either.
So...on the one hand, Russia and China do pose a threat worth looking at, but the economic situation might put everybody in the same mess, and this is beginning to look like a worldwide problem brewing. I’m not as worried about military threats right now as I am economic collapse. That would mean our biggest problem would not be Russia or China but right next door...our neighbors who just saw the bottom drop out of their world and are starving.
Thank you for your reply Paleo Pete and thank you to everyone else. Very interesting. The feeling I am getting from you all is similar to what Jim Rogers said in his book Adventure Capitalist (where he drove around the world in a custom Mercedes SUV before Mercedes built SUVs).
He said (in so many words), that the USSR and the USA kept order in a world of dis-order and now after decades of pent-up hostilities between and within multiple nations everywhere, he sees much more dis-order in the future. But the hardest working people in the world according to Jim: the Chinese.
So the endgame that Paleo Pete refers to in his post is what I feel also, China and Russia would like to take us on. (Now that we have weak executive and legislative leadership, piles of debt, etc.)
If we could ruin most any country with just one of our trident submarines firing half her silos (of nuclear missiles), how might the China, Russia and others take us on asymetrically? System hacking? Psych-ops (like on campuses), proxy wars?