No, I think he's here to bring judgement on America by moving us out from under Israel's umbrella.
Shalom.
Quite plausible . . .
While greasing the skids for the slide into globalist
managed hell on earth.
But what if the "little horn" that grows out of the compilation of the four kingdoms of Daniel 2 (iron and clay)is really a religio/politico culture and not a country? Then the Antichrist would be a product of the synthesis of Near Eastern/Western cultures commanding the respect of both cultures.
F.F. Bruce has an interesting interpretation of the "apostasy", "restrainer" and "man of sin" (Antichrist) in 2 Thessalonians. He says the apostasy is anarchy, a general breakdown of the rule of law. The restrainer is government that is holding back lawlessness and crushes the rebellion and in doing so, its mask is removed (the restrainer taken away) and the ruler is revealed to be the man of sin, the Antichrist.
The example he points to is Caligula attempting to erect a statue of himself in the temple in Jerusalem in 40 A.D. to solidify his claim to deity and the Roman senate refusing to go along with it.