Government control?

Yeah, it's not that much when you compare it to war or large scale natural disasters, but it is a significant figure.

My point exactly.

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Politics is entirely contrived, by the way; I consider being informed of having little understanding of how "politics should work" to be a compliment. Just because it's how the world works doesn't mean it's the correct way it should work.

So basically what you are saying is, it was a much bigger event than what I make it out to be, so we should have nuked them? Trigger happy.