I mean, that hardly sounds like a conspiracy. In hindsight, expanding fracking is such an obvious economic policy lever that would have been available to a) stimulate some regional economies in the US and Canada, accelerating the US's GDP recovery and b) fuck with OPEC's ability to influence the global supply of oil. When oil prices plummeted in 2014 and plunged Venezuela into a depression, the effects of US/Canada production weren't the least bit subtle.
I mean, that hardly sounds like a conspiracy. In hindsight, expanding fracking is such an obvious economic policy lever that would have been available to a) stimulate some regional economies in the US and Canada, accelerating the US's GDP recovery and b) fuck with OPEC's ability to influence the global supply of oil. When oil prices plummeted in 2014 and plunged Venezuela into a depression, the effects of US/Canada production weren't the least bit subtle.