It sure is dead and will remain so with that attitude.
Wishful thinking. Implying all the foreign powers you want to help in defeating it will just stay aside and let you, even help you rebuild it into the America that will be both able and willing to actually threaten them. You are trying to fit wishy washy sentiments into a sensible internal-external political strategy. If you believe that, you are as naive as the average hippy, except you think the utopia that mysteriously happens at the end will be traditionalist rather than socialist.
You are stuck on a ship that is taken over by a band of crazy mutineers while also more or less at war with some other ships it continues to maneuver against and deciding whether or not commit to a battle. If you sabotage the ship you are on to screw over the mutineers, well, you are going to end up on a lifeboat, if lucky, and then one of the other ships will either kill you or take you prisoner. If you think they will be somehow in awe of what you did and help you rebuild an even bigger and more powerful ship to do as you will with, you are as delusional as the crazy mutineers.
What you need to do is to deal with the mutineers one way or another and ready the ship for battle before the other ships notice what's going on and start truly exploit your moment of weakness.