Every wealthy empire in history evidences otherwise. The British Empire via the East India Company could only force trade upon China because of its superior navy and cannons. They demanded Hong Kong and established the banking that enabled the Opium Trade and exploitation of China and the subsequent incursions by multiple western nations as well as Japan...all enabled by governments and their military power projection supporting their merchants.

The capital markets of the Netherlands enabled global trade and wealth for the Dutch. The Spanish and Portuguese royalty sponsored conquest and exploitation of Latin America.

The US Petrodollar has only been operative due to US pledge to provide military defense and market and USTs to oil producing OPEC nations. US hegemony picked up the British Empires hegemony after WW2 with the same Jewish bankers in shadows operating the monetary networks that have run parallel to the military for hundreds of years.

Each empire declines as a new more proficient combination of merchants and government power projection is developed by a competing nation state.

China has won the trade war while USA carries a chronic trade and fiscal deficit that nobody sees as ever being repaid.

Trump is held hostage by China - 'if you want our refined rare earths essential to your military and manufacturing sponsors then bend the knee Donald!'

Wealth never endures without the framework of government providing the best conditions for its merchants and history tells this over and over and over again back to Roman times and before to King Solomon! Learn from history or be condemned to repeat it.