Scripture said this would happen long before modern politics or economics.

Psalms 2:1–2

“Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahuah and against His Anointed…”

This isn’t chaos. It’s coordination.
Kings don’t merely rule — they counsel together.
The people imagine it will last. Scripture calls it vain.

Fast-forward to the end of the system:

Revelation 18:3

“…the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich together…”

And again:

Revelation 18:23

“…for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

Notice the language:
• Kings act together
• Merchants grow rich together
• Nations are deceived together

This is not competition.
This is mutual benefit.

Psalm 2 shows the planning.
Revelation 18 shows the profit.

Add the prophets:

Isaiah 23:8

“Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?”

Commerce and rulership merge.
Merchants become princes.
Princes protect the merchants.

That’s the pattern.

So when people say, “These groups are fighting each other,” Scripture answers:
No — they are counselling together.
They quarrel in public and coordinate in private.

The deception isn’t that there is order.
The deception is believing it’s new.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

“There is no new thing under the sun.”

What’s new is the scale.
What’s old is the alliance.

Bottom line:
If you still believe the kings, merchants, and powers of this age are enemies of each other, Scripture says you’re watching the theatre — not the counsel.

Babylon falls suddenly because it is unified.
And what is unified against Yahuah is already judged.

“The people imagine a vain thing.”