Could America separate France from Russia?

Would the United States try to separate France from Russia and form a U.S.-British-French alignment instead of relying on Japan?

It might try, but wartime sacrifice binds France closely to Russia, while Russian expansion gives America strong reasons to cooperate with Britain, Italy, and Japan.

A chat question asks whether Washington would prefer a U.S.-British-French alignment to continued reliance on Japan. The problem is what France could offer and how the United States could overcome an alliance cemented by enormous wartime sacrifice. If no effective naval treaty required Britain to end the Anglo-Japanese alliance, London would probably keep Japan and add Italy as its European partner. America could choose the Franco-Russian side, but Russian interference in South America or Asia would make that unattractive. The more likely result is American cooperation with an existing British-Italian-Japanese maritime grouping rather than a successful effort to peel France away.