The beast system must have a military power base and access to exotic technologies that seem miraculous to behold(the son of perdition worships the god of forces per Daniel) with which to rule the world and fool the peoples. The US might be in the Bible as the power seat of the Beast system.
The increasing ET encounter phenomena in the US(as well as the rest of the world) and reported emphasis on sexuality and genetic manipulation with contactees suggests a Genesis 6 scenario, as Christ warned that his coming would be at a time when the times were as the days of Noah.
Knowledge has exploded, and there is evidence our government or at least entities acting thru our government are reverse engineering technologies that just seemed to either fall out of the sky or were given to them. There is an urgent kind of desperation one can sense from watching politicians and learned officials. Humans are being goaded into defying the living God because the entities doing the goading can already hear the approach of “Faithful and True” and they have no place to hide....not even in the genetic “containers” they have been trying to fashion for themselves!
Although you and I are going to disagree on how to define the beast, I just want to point out that, by any measure, the US military is fairly miraculous when compared to any other military, past or present.