[Quix]

Some truth to that, imho.

HOWEVER, Assme all 3 decide to collude to shred USA's economic, political and military might . . . planning AFTER that to deal with the remaining two of them. . . .

[Cronos]

Assme all 3 decide to collude to shred USA's economic, political and military might . . . planning AFTER that to deal with the remaining two of them.

Neither India nor Russia trust China -- they're applying the old m,ilitary rule that your neighbour is your enemy. They won't collude to knock out the US, unless they can reduce China to vassal status and that isn't going to happen. They would rather associate with the US and were doing so, except for the short-sightedness of some of the cold war dinosaurs we've still got hanging about.