Written large, every nation has within itself the seeds of its own downfall. This a part of the crux. The other half of the crux is what God has done and will do. He will not take away our free will, but awaits our permission. He offers a way out of our built-in failure.
Humans run from near zero goodness to maybe forty percent goodness.
But that forty percent always loses. We retain sinful tendencies, so a total change is not there. But the vote now goes God s way, and wonderful things begin to happen. This is salvation.