Depends. If a political party does it, probably not. When they involve every intelligence agency, media outlet and law enforcement agency, it starts to look a lot like it.

Go check out Brett Weinstein's DarkHorse podcast. They are airing a new episode live today on Odysee.

Several vaccines have created variants in the past. The vaccines don't directly produce the variants. Viruses will always mutate as they spread. It's a filtration problem