Think it is a big huge deflection to incite war. War edges closer regardless. This measure was largely released to provoke change. Control. Simple countermeasures priming the catalysts to occur. It is psychohistory. Where a set of events seemingly walked into causes only one event to occur. It invites both decline and destruction to re-establish itself. It is a larger smokescreen for drastic change. Population control, ridiculous technology causing it, greed profiting. But as they stoke the furnace the hotter it gets. Economics start to go next. Once a population is under attack it causes?