and the Lightning Network that has been created to solve the problem is a mechanism of control.

If you're referring to this video about the LN:

That video has been debunked on the technical level. The onion routing is almost exactly like TOR which leaves the individual hops unaware of the source and destination points. Only the actual sender and receiver have any idea among the 20+ hops who is doing what which makes the KYC accusation nonsense.

The only question in my mind is whether Blockstream bought up through banking interests a collection of like minded nerds to drown out dissident voices on the block size debate. Their like minded lockstep is suspicious, but that doesn't mean that they're not sincerely trying to solve a problem. However it's also quite possible that the owners bought up enough interest to have this group become dominant enough to buy the banks time while they solve unimportant problems (for now) such as micro-transactions. There is an argument that this base layer needs to be done correctly first though, because we got that wrong with the base layer of the internet and we've been paying the price with centralized IT ever since (the encroaching control grid such as FB, Google, etc).

It isn't a simple matter to shut down the internet for large countries in the west without crippling several dependent industries all of which will cause massive disruption. I only pointed out the SWIFT network for the sake of brevity, but the banks also have other networks.

Shutting off the electric grid for a long time will be next to impossible in the west and keep the control in place. There are too many interdependent industries. If they try to do it piecemeal, then there will be alternate routes created. The problem isn't that the electricity couldn't go out on a massive scale, but when you do this for any length of time, you create social chaos (hurricane Katrina was proof enough of that). In Philadelphia, when the EBT went out for a few hours, they nearly had a riot. Authorities would be replacing it for an actual revolution in the streets; the end of which would leave cops and military fearing for their lives, bloodshed, etc...

It was a significantly easier task to kill the internet in Egypt because the backwards state of their infrastructure allowed it. If they try it in all western nations at the same time, there would be much bigger problems and it would be over for the established power structure very quickly.