With this subject, your posting style is different than the usual. It's a tense, vulnerable, emotional situation. It is for me, too. So let me be more precise.
You said "control of the sky" in your post. I am offering my views on that aspect of control. It seemed they had control of the skies.
If you would now like to discuss control of ground, or control of buildings, control of the stage, or even control of mysterious ladders we can certainly discuss those things and I suspect we will be in agreement on most of it.