I agree a 100%.
Understanding that there is a financial elite that manipulated the news media, and as such the people of the USA is a great first step in understanding how the world works.
Congratulation.
Next step would be to understand that they manipulate all countries. They either control the leaders, presidents of countries or find ways to undermined them.
They even spy on their so called allies, such as on Merkel of Germany and the phone tapping scandal not so long ago.
If they can't the leader must go. Examples in the middle east would be Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Current still living examples are Assad of Syria, and Erdoğan of Turkey. Both these leaders are not great to begin with, adding falls narratives and lies by the news media turned them in to a liability for the people. However bad each of these leaders are, people understand that the alternative will be far worst.
One thing you don't seam to understand fully yet:
These financial elites, are not one single group, but many groups that most of the time are at odds with each other.
But currently they seam to be in consensus about Assad and Erdogan.
In other words Erdogan and Assad need to put their differences aside, and collaborate or sooner or later they will be replaced by puppets.