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Perhaps she meant 'owns' in a sort of ideological sense? I don't doubt that the US government could exert a great deal of pressure on the vast majority of world government's but to suggest that it exerts control (via its 'ownership' ) over countries like North Korea or Iran seems to be contrary to all the evidence surely?

US Government is and always will be a for profit now bankrupt corporation. It's the American Government, American States and its people that are the Paramount Security Interest Holders and Priority Creditors. To us, in other words. The living people.