Russia is working on creating an economical block that could compete with transantantic aliance. I think first Putin will try to get together Asia and then join it with South America, which is notoriously against US policies. There are actually many educated people like professors, economists and sociologist that predicts, shift of world influence from West to East.

Fun fact: Most famous and respected fortunetellers predicted Russia/Asia to be main force in world of 21 century.

We live in intereting times.