Daniel 7. Symbology plus Current Events
Man/Lion - Medes and Persians/Old Persian Empire - Economic/oil, reign by Alliance of Iraq and Iran.
Bear - Russia - Economic reign, control of oil/invited as allies by New Persian Empire, or tapping into it's own oil reserves. Or both.
Leopard - Economic Alliance of African Nations. Tapping into Africa's wealth of resources, gems, minerals, oil.
(Older Empires, U.S., Europe, New Persian Empire, exhausting oil reserves).

Iron/Dragon - Ecomomic takeover by antichrist government after coming in as peacemaker when they all start squabbling. No one can BUY or SELL.
ECONOMIC POWERS AND TAKEOVERS.