America s concern will be North Korea, NATO is a paper tiger and Russia knows they do not have the back bone with out US support. The Arab nations relied on the present admin and what the progressives hoped would be the next admin to hold up NATO economically. With a changing of administrations there is a ton of different dynamics that will play out, the prosperity level in this country may end up being our down fall over the next 6 years or so, wealth has a way of putting people to sleep. Russia will eventually unify the Middle East and I can see The US as having lost all influence in the middle east, what influence we did have was because of the bribes/gifts, donations...however you want to frame it, that our officials accepted in secret, or at the very least on the quiet. Russia will be pretty much un-opposed, but trying to get those different muslim factions to walk together toward any goal is like trying to tame a bunch of wild donkeys...near impossible, until a clear goal or objective is in sight.