How is this for a long-term conspiracy on the part of oil companies and the arms industries?

I’m sure I’m not the first person to come up with this.

Is it possible that all of the current mideast trouble (and the various terrorist bombings) are part of a long term, big picture strategy that would benefit the big weapons and big oil industries?

By long-term, I mean decades – maybe even 70–100 years out. They wouldn’t get immediate gratification, but that’s not part of the plan.

Points:

- Oil shortages make oil companies (and by extension, oil countries) rich.

- Oil gluts make oil companies and oil countries poorer.

- Groups like ISIS bomb and kill. That’s seen as a necessary down payment for the next step.

- In retribution for the Paris killings, France and others bomb oil supplies that ISIS controls. That provokes a response, more terrorism, more reprisals.

- Isis (or others) begin to hit oil refineries (it happened in Algeria two years ago, Egypt last year, and so on).

- That reduces the amount of oil.

- The oil companies get richer.

- The armament makers keep in business. The various armies need new equipment after all. The US Army keeps its budget high.

And the cycle goes on. Keep in mind that in the Iraq Wars, one of the first things that happened was that Saddam Hussein bombed the Kuwaiti oil wells and refineries.