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You think Russia/Iran/China would just behave without the threat of US intervention?
Ironically, without the "bigger threat" of the USA, they'd likely be at odds against each other. China still wants Outer Manchuria back, a region it was forced to cede to Russia back in 1860. Iran wants to be the de facto power of the muslim world, but has to deal with many other muslim countries that don't want it, plus Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are countries that Russia would prefer to have control over.
Yeah there might be a struggle there for a bit but China would steamroll both of them and then what?
I doubt China would steamroll them. People thought Russia would steamroll Ukraine, it very clearly didn't. Besides, China isn't exactly a loved country, it has "allies" that would likely abandon them on the first opportunity and many countries that would love to see them getting kicked in the proverbial nuts.
Any militaristic action of China against any of those big targets would trigger a response from several countries. While everyone will talk peace, in reality a good portion would try to play the war up for as long as possible, to bleed both dry.