What governments really want is like 1/3 of the global population gone. That would be really convenient for them.
Their slave population has become unmanageable
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You know, I’m torn here. The globe could lose 4 billion people, and humanity would probably be better for it.
Governments don't want anything, they are tools of violence and control for the parasitic elites who have contempt for pretty much all of humanity, not just 1/3 of it.