Every strong empire throughout history, including the usa, has elements of babylon in it.
They get worse as the nation becomes more corrupt and moves away from God. Remember at he end Nebuchadnezzer gets his sanity back and praises the true God, and has the true God worshipped throughout Babylon. His heirs howevr do not, and go corrupt and move away from the true God, and well, you know...they are toppled and wiped out by other powers.
//Every strong empire has elements of Babylon in it.//
My response: True enough. But that has nothing to do with biblical prophecy.
You are describing an Idealist approach to interpreting prophecy that can’t result in eschatology per se. If there is no way to know whether the most recent fulfillment is the final fulfillment then there is no reliable prediction of “the end” (that’s the difference between eschatology and simple prophecy).
On the other hand, if Peter was telling the truth when he said that the prophets long ago were talking about them in their generation (the 1st Century) then the burden of proof is on the futurists to prove that there is a multiple fulfillment in Peter’s future.