Also, the joint naval exercises justify a yes answer.

Anything is possible. I go for the prophetic, and George Washington's Valley Forge vision showed essentially a ROW (rest of world) vs. USA.

And there's a Christian missionary with many supernatural testimonies, Henry Gruber, who had a vision of Russian ships carrying Chinese soldiers. That was back in the 90's when he had the vision, only indicating it was in the future.

On the strictly pragmatic side, even if Putin is sincerely allied with Trump, i.e. beyond mere convenience, that doesn't mean that Russia doesn't have its own DS warmongers. By all accounts, our military is infiltrated, and for that reason it appears weaker than normal. And in realpolitik, Russia may have a lot to gain by allowing China to expand across the Pacific rather than into Siberia or Kazakhstan. It's clear (well, reports indicate: who really knows) that China and Russia have operating agreements in Ukraine and SE Europe.

Good question. Politics makes for strange bedfellows, but then so does war. After all, the Soviet Union was our ALLLY during WWII, even though we knew that one day we would be in opposition to them. They were just geographically and strategically positioned to the east of Germany, so in the spirit of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," they became an uneasy ally.

The same might be happening between Russia and China, a temporary truce while they lick their chops over destroying a mutual enemy of the past 70 years or so. I just hope our military is up to the task of dealing with this.