America's major adversaries continue to stay close to one another in works against an American-led global order.
In more recent months, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea seem to be getting closer. The U.S. is forced to keep their eye on multiple situations and developments as these foes are applying the pressure with weapons making, terror attacks and war.
National Security Analyst Edward Turzanski said the four major players are keeping close ties because of two simple things: opportunity and necessity.
"They are finding more opportunities for cooperative action," Turzanski said. "Anywhere where they can work collaboratively to push back against the United States or American interests, they view as a good day."
To the four countries, it's about advancing their interests over the ones of the U.S. Turzanski also said that these countries are not just going after the US from a military standpoint, but economically too.
"China especially is interested in replacing the U.S. dollar as the world currency reserve," he said, stating that life in the U.S. would become much more difficult and more people becoming poor if that actually happens.
According to Turzanski, if China, Russia, Iran and North Korea can replace the dollar as the reserve currency, the ability the U.S. has to negotiate with those four countries essentially becomes non-existent.
Turzanski says U.S. leadership has been lacking tremendously when dealing with foreign affairs.
"The opportunities have been created by weak American responses to a number of global crisis," said Turzanski. "Anytime the United States steps back, expect that these states in some combination are going to step in."