The utter brilliance of Western Propaganda is the ability to hide everything and promote anything. No despotic government in history has come even close to this level of manipulation. Democracy is the great shield they are hiding under.

They don't need to tell governments what to do because they have all signed contracts with international entities that stipulate certain type of responses in a crisis situation. The media takes care of the rest.

There might be orders in some cases, for example the Australian Prime Minister is on a official police list of suspected pedophiles. This might explain him being such a good boy promoting open fascism. No doubt there are many others like him who live in great fear of having their grotesque crimes revealed to the world.