I like to think outside the box a bit more.
The cluster fuckery is deliberate, the incompetence is deliberate sabotage. The system as it was has worked for them up until now to steal wealth and the freedom they allowed as it benefitted them. The destruction of the planet everything as long as they suck wealth out of the status Qou. The music has stopped, we are now draining their resources and soon and no longer are they profiting from how things are.
The thing they fear the most is people not having any work to go and do and this is exactly what is happening. I could go on but its clear as day to me that yes this world is run in secret and it is a global agenda. No one country is sovereign its all a game.