I think that those terms have a lot of baggage, because they've been so heavily associated with conspiracy theories. So when I hear the term illuminati, for example. I imagine people are referring to a group of maybe 13 family members descended from bloodlines that sit in a smoke filled room behind a bookshelf, plotting world events.
We all know that the government is corrupt and I don't think you need a formal conspiracy when interest converge.
Also, it's actually a lot of South Korean and Chinese in particular companies that have been developing Iraq…
The US is, however, stealing oil from places like Syria.
en.wikipedia.org
One of the reasons the United States invaded Iraq, was to put an armored brigade Fallujah. You don't put an armored brigade in for urban pacification. That's infantry not tanks. It threatened Syria,
Saudi Arabia, and Iran because they didn't know what we were gonna do next.
The US also has the Petro dollar agreement. In the US does sell a lot of weapons to Saudi Arabia and has basically been helping to host a genocide in Yemen wage of proxy war with Iran.