Realistic answer? Probably nobody. I listen to a number of independent news and opinion sources, and the one thing they tend to agree on about the inner workings of the Biden Administration is that it's a ship where everyone and no one is behind the wheel.

It's a collection of policy wonks, Deep State operatives, special interest groups, donors, and career bureaucrats that rarely get talked about on the news but seem to be the third guy down in photos for the last 8 Administrations... and to make it even worse they're not all of one mind on anything, but seem to have factions that war and conflict with one another.

There's always that belief that there's some Illuminati-type group that's somehow calling all the shots, and the WEF clearly has an agenda where they've put out feelers into many other governments, but the sad truth might just end up being that really, at the core, there is no cohesive goal: just a bunch of people looking to either loot the treasury before the empire falls, seize some minor fiefdom to carry out their personal agenda, or just try to secure some kind of nest egg for after the collapse.

I mean, there's a lot of black-pill messaging out there for a reason: when civilization or a nation collapses, it's not like something explodes to signify it's happened, it happens in small and subtle ways: the cops simply don't go to a particular part of town and tend to stick to the areas they live in, things don't get built or really maintained, they just slowly break down, and slowly the powerful begin to ensconce themselves into enclaves where private security will defend them in exchange for the crumbs off their master's table.

I don't know if it's avoidable, but our leadership is clearly acting like the collapse of the global order is inevitable, and what they're trying to to is ensure that their quality of life can continue uninterrupted while the rest of us go die in a ditch somewhere. So long as someone tills the fields and maintains the machines, they really don't care what happens to 99% of the population; what's happening now is them preparing for that transition while jockeying for power to see who'll be in charge when the NWO takes over.