Many conspiracy theories are factual if you really want to know the truth. I once worked for a man (dead now) named Armand Hammer (baking soda family) that as a young officer in the US military during WWII was stationed in Moscow as a member of the US team helping Stalin. He felt so bad for the Russian people for what the Germans did to them that he gave Stalin a million dollars of his own money to help feed the people. At any rate Stalin made him a deal that the USSR would do no business deals with any other country without it going through Hammer first. This agreement held until his death in the 1990.
Well he once said something to me while we rode in a car that to not look at the front page of a news paper because their is nothing there except what the powers that be wants to side track you with. He said the real news in usually buried at in small single paragraph articles no one bother to read. He actually stopped and bought a paper opening it and pointed to 2 articles 1 on the front page of the paper they other very short buried in the middle. He explained the second one to me in depth but the first one told me straight up was the US posturing.
Now I won't go into to many details, but the world is controlled by very powerful individuals who you have never heard of or read about. Governments most part are their to distract, basically with mis direction, keep it simple for the simple minded masses.