Undoubtedly.
In fact, while I cannot bring myself to include the Holy Father, I wouldn't doubt that the election of a Polish Pope to coincide with Poland's "Solidarity" as foreshadowing of Perestroika is probably not out of the question. Then again, I've spent far more time analyzing communists than I have the Vatican so perhaps have a greater respect for their ability to accomplish long-range objectives than the Church's who -- in my lifetime, anyway -- has proven extraordinarily weak and subject to corruption, heresy and rebellion.
I don't think anyone here fools themselves into believing the smoke of Satan hasn't entered the sanctuary. We know for a fact the faithful at the Vatican are surrounded by piranhas. I see no reason a certain Use of the papacy (which perhaps backfired when the assassin failed to kill him) is out of the question.
I am a huge fan of John Paul II's writings and believe his travels have indeed borne much fruit. That said, I couldn't care less about his Popularity Index and find the idea of a cult of Personality about the Pope unsettling.
It's precisely that sort of emotion-based adulation which tees the ball for them to try and install their own Pope.
I see nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade where the Pope's words and actions -- outside of his ex cathedra or doctrinal teaching -- are concerned. He had no business kissing the Koran as if it were the Gospel. I find his wink-wink, nudge-nudge approach to Medjugorje likewise unsettling. That's a fraud that should have been shut down long ago. The Church has no business engaging in the same self-deluding Pragmatism which has been the ticket to the West's destruction from within.