People certainly love oil related conspiracy theories.
So here's a fun one: the US staged the attack on Saudi oil production. The US gets to blame Iran, benefit its own growing oil industry (new export pipeline recently hooked up in the Permian), and harm China (increasingly dependent on Saudi oil) - all in one neat little package.
I'm not suggesting that scenario is legitimate at all. I'm just surprised that I've never seen anyone else float it, so far.
> the US staged the attack on Saudi oil production.
that is definitely no for so many reasons that there is no point in going over them. This is why nobody floats it. After all a good conspiracy theory must have a good theory element in it - ie. a plausible explanation of some facts without contradicting the rest of the facts :)
What may have happened is US finally decided that it may be the time to stop the blood bath in Yemen, yet how one would go about it without displeasing the Saudis? So may be the US just did let the drones pass through (as in the ships carrying the drones as well as the drones flying to the target). Thus US preserves Saudis as dear friends, while the Saudis become very interested in ending the war because their lower back becomes on fire, and how are they going to do the oil IPO if the oil infrastructure/assets overnight became de-facto located in the war zone?
So here's a fun one: the US staged the attack on Saudi oil production. The US gets to blame Iran, benefit its own growing oil industry (new export pipeline recently hooked up in the Permian), and harm China (increasingly dependent on Saudi oil) - all in one neat little package.
I'm not suggesting that scenario is legitimate at all. I'm just surprised that I've never seen anyone else float it, so far.