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You're getting carried away. Russia and China are more likely to go to war with each other than either of them are with us. I've been to both Siberia and northeast China and from what I saw and heard, it's hard to believe there's a genuine alliance forming between them. All they can agree on is the need to restrain US power. If it weren't for our superpower status and our prosecution of wars without UN approval there'd be no substance to the Sino-Russian axis whatsoever.

It all boils down to the fact that the costs of confronting Russia and China are far too great to ditch diplomacy. We simply don't have the capability to invade either country or penetrate their airspace with anything close to the level of immunity we've grown accustomed to. Total war against the heads of the Axis sounds nice, until you start considering how many lives it will cost. I'll start taking your suggestion seriously if you're the first to volunteer on a march to Beijing and Moscow.

A good start might consist of renewing SEATO and rearming ourselves to handle more than 2 MRC. Also, our wunderkinder inside the beltway need to learn where the Strait of Malacca is on the world map.....