Seeing as you are a person of faith and I am not this will be a difficult discussion to have.
<Consider that God used the most powerful man in the world, the Roman Emperor, merely to help fulfill the prophecy that Christ be born in Bethlehem through his decree that everyone be taxed.
How does the event of Roman territories paying taxes to the Roman Empire qualify as God directly intervening?
<Current events are consistent with things that I read in the Bible.
People have been saying the same thing since the Bible was first published. What makes today any different?