Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust... Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. Isaiah 40:15 & 17

Much of the history of the world is the history of people and nations warring against each other. The drive to exert one’s power and authority by attacking and defeating others seems virtually insatiable.

But the day is coming when every person and nation will be conquered by God almighty. Where will boasting be then?

The message of Daniel involves prophecies of world empires rising and falling in succession, each boasting that they are bigger and more powerful than those that came before.

But that is not the main point of the book of Daniel. The main point of Daniel is that, though world empires come and go, in the end, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, Jesus, will defeat them all and establish His Kingdom that can never fail and will never end.

While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Daniel 2:34
In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. Daniel 2:44

So let us not trust in the nations or in the people who purport to rule them. Instead, let us trust only in, and give our praise only to, King Jesus!