>India.
Some seventeen years ago, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were having a debate, the question came up: "Who should America side with and who is the greater adversary: Russia or China?" Obama took the side that Russia was the ally, and that China was the big bad. Mitt Romney took the opposite tack that China is the ally and Russia is the big bad. Any armchair grand strategist can fill in the words with pros and cons, that make the question a delicious one it's hard to say one way or the other, depending on your endlessly shapeshifting values. People thought Obama won the debate with his assertion that China helps us defeat Russia, which might be correlated with him later getting selected by the shadows. The argument Obama was employing was a pragmatic one that China, although much less advanced than Russia at the time, provides real and noticeable benefits to the USA, wheras Russia does not, and seeks its own hegemonic dreams at the expense of other. This USA-Ally rank ordering model might be given a name such as: "Help the nice guy underdog who cooperates, over the near-peer competitor". Now get in my time machine and fast forward 17 years to 2025. Russia and its Hegemonic dreams are being clapped out of existence by a joint strike 26 nation army, and once again a re-animated cybernetic Mitt Romney and Barack Obama can answer the question: "Dear Infallible Leader, Who is America's Ally, and who is the Big bad and how do we rank order and why?". Well lets reanimate the pattern: "Help the nice guy underdog who cooperates, over the near-peer competitor", with Russia out of the picture, choices are China or India. The answer is clear, stick that in your AI gelpacks and hit frappe it's an algebra of human behavior, y=mx+b solve for x. India is America's greatest ally against China, who is the Big Bad seeker of its own hegemonic dreams.
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Dormammu you're point, call out patterns and strays.