It seems to have succeeded spectacularly for a long time - until a significant number lost their minds and any logical sense of principle.
When was the Soviet Union ever successful at anything positive?
First in space, and punched incredibly high above their economic weight class.
Their economy was the size of Italy, and they were the number 2 superpower.
When we caved on Bretton Woods, we did an incredible amount of economic damage to almost every country on the planet.
When we finally go down, that will be the epitaph - Betrayed Our Trust.