I immediately thought of the Titanic when I read that phrase. Something tells me he will be stopped; as Paul Harvey would say, he just overran his headlights.
what i though of is...
Isaiah 40:23-24
He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.