@jebba I am no fan of US foreign policy, but I am also no fan of nebulous conspiracy theories that stipulate some shady "thems" and suggest that actual foreign policy of a country is not controlled nor controllable by the current administration/government ruling it.
The reason I am no fan of such conspiracy theories is because they are useless: no explanatory value and no predictive value. It's just an "I want to believe" that intellectually and practically leads nowhere.