Emerging anti-US axis worrisome but 'not acting as a bloc'

FILE - Firefighters help a local woman evacuate from a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike, which local authorities considered to have been made with an Iranian-made Shahed-136, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 17, 2022.

Washington's most dangerous adversaries may be working together more closely than ever before, but U.S. intelligence analysts think that for now, they are falling short of forming a tight-knit alliance that could more effectively counter the United States.