It isn't that Russia, China and India have gone in with each other so much as they have all rejected the unipolar world run by the United States. It is much mo

It isn't that Russia, China and India have gone in with each other so much as they have all rejected the unipolar world run by the United States. It is much more within the national interest of China and India to maintain (and expand) their economic relations with resource-rich Russia than it is to punish their own economies at the behest of the United States. Many people, for better or worse, are convinced that continued US global hegemony is not only desirable, but absolutely essential. These are the people who talk solemnly about the importance of the "rules-based, liberal international order". What they mean by that is the ability of the United States to make the rules by which other countries must abide, but which we are exempt. The reality is that the multi-polar world has already arrived. You're absolutely right that we'd be better off figuring out how to best survive (and thrive) in that world instead of flailing around in a desperate, futile attempt to maintain control.