[imtringued]

>But! Then it fuses these pieces and makes it seem like they are part of a larger plan. A plan where "someone" has incentive, lack of ethics and almost all powerful capability to manipulate events.

>Thing is, masterminds don't exist. Opportunists do.

You are forgetting that everyone is consciously or subconsciously wanting these things. You don't need a single super villain, you just need a critical mass of people who want a benefit for themselves at the expense of people they are never going to meet.

In Germany the amount of people that think they have a god given right to cheap meat and cheap oil is astonishing and they clearly don't care how that end result is achieved, they just demand that their politicians do something about it.

[elliekelly]

Is that exactly what parent comment said? It’s not a “mastermind” but “opportunists” taking advantage of the situation.

[slibhb]

The idea that Africa being poor and unstable is related to cheap goods in Europe and the US is complete fiction.

Furthermore, you rate unconscious desires of westerners over the actions of Africans. What would have to occur for you to attribute a coup in an African country to the actual human beings who carried it out?