That's the crux of my point in terms of how the last 80 years of US dominance shaped not just intellectual outlook of scholars but how entire academic disciplines from IR to economics to Global History are structurally coded. Hegemony is assumed to be a default state in ways I think are flat wrong
it takes only a few minutes of thought to realise that the self-interest of major EMs - Turkey, Russia, China; India, Venezuela, Brazil etc etc etc are rarely if ever aligned
That's more thought given than a lot of colleagues shaped in particular, often US-coded, sub-disciplines
Alliances of convenience last as long as they are convenient. You can be best friends with a personalist dictator today and a bitter enemy tomorrow. And the Russia/India/China relationship in particular has a lot of historical baggage hidden under the surface that can erupt if circumstances change.
Right and China and India are only ever a misguided dam project away from open conflict.