>> “ I think we in the west must first survive the destruction of mystery Babylon” <<
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Not according to the Revelation, the destruction of Babylon comes in the bowl judgments, after the first resurrection, beginning at the 7th trump.
That is Yehova’s ten days of awe, between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur. This is the 1260 days after the abomination at Purim.
I perhaps have it wrong, but I'm holding to my thoughts that the destruction of Babylon happens prior to the rise of the two horned Beast that rises from the sea.
In Revelation the Angel carrying one of the bowls calls John to show him the destruction of Babylon. This is a parenthetical interruptions in the action. Granted it occurs at the very end of the book of Revelation, that doesn't also mean that the Angel's description of the destruction of Babylon then would prevent the actual event from having occurred sooner in what will take place. I pulled out my copy of the CG; didn't find anything that was greatly enlightening there either.
IMO, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that leads me to believe the destruction of mystery Babylon occurs early on.
I find Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 51 helpful.
There are many verses linked that impress upon me that the destruction of Babylon could not happen at the end and these verses still hold true. Just one as an example:
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
"Let us go every one into his own country", isn't something you would be able to do at the end of the tribulation and woe.
The verses listed at the link provided are telling and even suggestive of who mystery Babylon is, if we are now in the end times.