I am only certain of one thing: considering all the "scandals" and various "gates" that had been coming out since the foundation of media, I believe that if we really, and I mean REALLY knew what was going on behind the scenes globally, our hair would stand on ends.
I think it's all business and most of those people that we think are enemies probably actually cooperating in various depravities, drugs and human trafficking or worse, making deals with all kinds of high profile criminals, poor police probably trying to get as many criminals as actually possible, but being forced to let the big fish off the hook. I observed this with drug lords in my country, the people want them all arrested, the police knows all the names, but are only allowed to catch really small fries. Drug lords get out of court very quickly when arrested, and laugh all the way because the court has no power to convict them. This is the kind of people that murdered our prime minister years ago, when he tried to go against them a little bit. What is that telling you, he could not even get into power without their permission. I don't believe it's too different in bigger and richer countries, it's just more high profile criminal, a bigger game with higher stakes.
I was watching some program by a futuristic tech channel yesterday from Singularity University. They run this little propaganda video in between segments, they try to con their viewers expounding ethical discussions about editing genes, "enchancing" people and cloning, and then conclude with "the technology is already there, now we need to use it to help people". In other words, the ethical "debate" has been decided for us, the "discussion" and supposed asking general public for "consent" is a show. There may be organ farms already, growing cloned children somewhere far away in the hills, and if not, there will be in the future. They only let us know that they are already successfully cloning healthy and reproducible mice. That's what they let us know, but how advanced is it really. Are people seriously going to think that the kind of people that runs drug cartels won't have a hand in such a technology and grow children to harvest organs for profit? They have no problem trafficking kids or harvesting organs already and getting away with it...
It may be easier to see how big of a circus politics is when you're coming from a small country like me because small countries' politicians are insignificant players. They are also more easily exposed because of their lack of power. But the tactics are the same because the game is the same. I am not claiming specific theories I can't prove, this is simply applying common sense based off everything I've seen in my life. If a depraved thought can come into a human mind, be sure there's a man out there that has acted upon it already.