'World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.'

The above wasn't written by David Icke or any other 'lunatic conspiracy theorist' but the late Labour Party big hitter Denis Healey who included them in his autobiography The Time of My Life.

For decades he occupied a position to know how the world really worked because he knocked around with the like of David Rockefeller every year at secret meetings along with scores of other immensely rich and powerful people.

Icke and many others, fellow crackpots (of course), have maintained what Healey stated is true long before his book was published in 2015 - and go much farther by suggesting everything we are presented as true on the world stage is a carefully contrived fake reality and pure theatre... there are no competing political ideologies, and the leaders of all developed countries are carefully pre-selected years in advance of being installed into power to play their roles in a grand theatre production.

Presuming Healey was correct, this Ukraine-Russia conflict is no accident and it's been made to happen. For what purpose isn't clear.