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You actually made me laugh out loud with that one..
It's gotten to the point I don't find many conspiracy theories too outlandish to at least consider in passing these days. Yours is relatively rational so I kind of suspect it might have a resemblance to something near truth.
It really bites having to become the political equivalent of a Kremlinologist (damn my spell check recognized that!) just to decipher what is really going on here in the land of the free.