I honestly don't know enough about the situation to say what could have been done, if anything (which makes me incapable of knowing whether your claim of unknow

I honestly don't know enough about the situation to say what could have been done, if anything (which makes me incapable of knowing whether your claim of unknowability is true :P). But while governments don't intervene in hindsight, driving ideologies largely determine what possibilities a person pays attention to, and thus the capacity of their foresight.