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And just so you can't pretend like you don't know what I'm referring to, regarding the strengthening Russia-China alliance.

I believe every word of it. And my response is, "So what?" It's somewhat tacky for someone to quote themselves but I'm going to re-post what I wrote on another thread on Sunday:

It wasn't. But I would submit that it doesn't matter. In the end, the Middle East is a backward, third-world hole that gets far more attention that it deserves in the world of geopolitics. Blood and treasure lost? Yes. Tragic? Yes. But this is the place where the world comes to test it's theories. Whether it was Bush attempting the imposition of democratic rule on a people who have neither the inclination or the history to accept such a social order, or Obama continuing that notion through his support of popular revolt movements in Egypt, Libya and now Syria.

Same can be said for Putin and his dreams of global dominion. Even the advance of Chinese naval assets into the Mediterranean is nothing more that a test of its own abilities. From the standpoint of United States foreign policy there is absolutely nothing of worth in the Middle East beyond keeping our hand in to know what's going on.

The ultimate solution to the Middle East is theological and not political. It's a 1,400 year old problem. So it is in our interest to ensure they remain a third-world and moribund society for the foreseeable future until they see their way past the Mohammedan fever. That includes fomenting discord and conflict. Continue to use it as a test bed for our ideas to see if we can help them along. And yes from time to time that will cost us blood and treasure.

However, what we will have gained is invaluable knowledge and experience for dealing with Russia and China in the future if the time comes. Provided they both don't fall into self-imposed isolation which is their wont to do. History tells us that their expansionist plans lead to failure. Their cultures simply don't support it. They are inward-looking and ultimately short-sighted.

There will be setbacks such as what we see occurring in Europe. The 60 year American security guarantee freeing them to pilot their own socialist schemes to their demographic detriment. There will be violent spasms in reaction to the Mohammedan horde but they will be the death throes of a civilization that abandoned its fundamental principles. They deserve their fate. Same applies to Russia and China. Their demographics show that there will be no rise of China. Russia's death is assured.

The United States will remain the dominant power of the 21st century. But as you say it will require the right kind of leadership.

If Putin wants to alleviate the world of it's ISIS problem then have at it.

What I believe is going on here is that Obama INTENTIONALLY failed to more aggressively take on ISIS for the specific purpose of allowing Putin the opportunity to move his forces in and ultimately take control of it and eventually the rest of the Middle East. Obama comes from a long line of people sympathetic to the old Soviet Union. In fact, his childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, whom he refers to as "Uncle Frank" in his book 'Dreams From My Father', used to write poems glorifying the Soviet army.
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Barack Obama, from Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, New York, Revised Edition, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3, p. 76-7:
"But by the time I met Frank [Frank Marshall Davis] he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar."
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Frank Marshall Davis

From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
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Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

"Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."
-People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405
(Note: article has since been pulled from the Communist Party USA/Peoples Weekly World/PWW website)

AIM article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/