In 1971, Nixon faced “Triffin’s Paradox” full-on: maintain the power of Fed.gov, US built global monetary system and its elites, or begin to withdraw the use of the US Dollar and limit the power of Fed.gov to focus on the well-being of American workers, savers and middle-class.
He chose the globalist and deep state
The maintenance of that system also meant that the US had to "lead by example," as though following the laws of war when fighting against savage regimes and peoples who had no respect for those laws could ever lead to success.
As a consequence every major engagement by the US since 1945 has been at best a draw and usually a defeat, because our leadership is more tied to virtue signaling than actually winning. In addition, the system became corrupt as more and more of the elite in both business and government made money selling out the interests of the United States, all in the pursuit of "world peace" and "free trade."
When the people finally responded by electing an outsider as President, the deep state responded with an attempted soft coup d'etat and worked with the opposition party (and many Republicans) to install