The problem with dismissing the potential conspiracy angles is that we are not talking about "leaders" that are mentally sound. Just look at Merkel; does anyone here for even the briefest moment think she is playing with a full deck? Look at the Brits - crazier than shithouse rats. Given the indications that these officials are running several cans short of full six-packs, it immediately calls into question their capacity for rational, sound thought. I believe that may be lower than the minimum necessary to govern in a way that doesn't wreck everything in time.
Crazy people see the same things we look at very differently. I look at a horse and see a horse. Crazy people see a kitchen sink, or perhaps a cut nail or winter salami. This is a big part of the reason we call them "crazy".
I'm not saying this was a false flag, but am urging at least some minimal caution in dismissing the possibility out of hand.
Who, for example, would have thought Bay Of Pigs would have a stink on it? Northwoods? Gulf of Tonkin? And yet, these all played out far smellier than any nominally sound adult of the respective eras would have thought. Anyone suggesting Tonkin was a false flag would have been automatically and immediately dismissed at the very least and possibly taken away and drugged as dangerously insane. And yet, they would have been right.
So be careful by remaining circumspect.