Are you sane? Oil-wise, America's proven reserves are around 47 billion barrels and russia's 80 billion. Rare metals? See the news piece about the fairly recent Japanese discovery of a huge deposit in their territorial waters (yeah, hard to mine and extract from under seabed but still possible). Population? Russia's population is predicted to fall to ~83 million by 2100, and China has the 2nd worst birthrate in the world after South Korea, ~1.2 (the US has ~1.7, the replacement level is 2.1, but the US compensates it by attracting migrants where China can't, they want maintain their homogeneity to maintain stability, they can't have too much diversity with races, ethnicities, religions, languages and are racist towards immigrants), worse than Japan. It's actually possible (not guaranteed, but still possible) that by the end of the century the US will be more populous than China. russia is entirely irrelevant (except for nukes and raw materials), China is strong but faces too many hurdles. Seems like usual standard anti-Americanism at work. But I agree that India has chance to overtake America (demographic benefit, native exposure of English, democratic governance, huge investments into infrastructure since Modi, etc. They need to keep pumping money into infrastructure, increase spending on education to eradicate illiteracy, on R&D, ensure gender equality, resolve intercommunal tensions and violence between Muslims and Hindus (since religiosity levels tend to fall with growing economies, they'll secularize and become less religious), less red taping, and eventually they'll be on par with America or even stronger). If you're looking for the eventual new superpower, in the long term it will likely be India, not China (let alone russia).