"The U.S. Empire is the Largest Empire The World has Ever Known": The Russia-China-Iran Alliance
NATO, the U.S. Government, and all other "neoconservatives" (adherents to Cecil Rhodes's 1877 plan for a global U.S. empire that would be run, behind the scenes, by the UK's aristocracy) have been treating Russia, China, and Iran, as being their enemies. In consequence of this: Russia, China, and Iran, have increasingly been coordinating their international policies, so as to assist each other in withstanding (defending themselves against) the neoconservative efforts that are designed to conquer them, and to add them to the existing U.S. empire.
The U.S. empire is the largest empire that the world has ever known, and has approximately 800 military bases in foreign countries, all over the planet. This is historically unprecedented. But it is — like all historical phenomena — only temporary. However, its many propagandists — not only in the news-media but also in academia and NGOs (and Rhodesists predominate in all of those categories) — allege the U.S. (or UK-U.S.) empire to be permanent, or else to be necessary to become permanent. Many suppose that "the rise and fall of the great powers" won't necessarily relate to the United States (i.e., that America will never fall from being the world's dominant power); and, so, they believe that the "American Century" (which has experienced so many disastrous wars, and so many unnecessary wars) will — and even should — last indefinitely, into the future. That viewpoint is the permanent-warfare-for-permanent-peace lie: it asserts that a world in which America's billionaires, who control the U.S. Government (and the American public now have no influence over their Government whatsoever), should continue their 'rules-based international order', in which these billionaires determine what 'rules' will be enforced, and what 'rules' won't be enforced; and in which 'rules-based international order' international laws (coming from the United Nations) will be enforced ONLY if and when America's billionaires want them to be enforced. The ideal, to them, is an all-encompassing global dictatorship, by U.S. (& UK) billionaires.