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[Star wars] Did Palpatine believe that Anakin was truly the chosen one? Or did he simply not care either way, as long as he got Anakin (a clearly powerful force user) to join him?

To clarify further than the title allows; Did Palpatine even believe or care about the chosen one prophecy, and believe Anakin was indeed the chosen one? 

Or was it a much simpler explanation of:

'I want Anakin to join me solely because he is clearly very powerful, and I can use him as I used Dooku' ? 

Was it a bit of column A and column B? 

TIA!(:
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Palpatine didn't believe in the prophecy as the Jedi understood it. He believed in a sith version of it with himself as the chosen one to rule absolute over the sith and Jedi orders that he destroyed. Turning Anakin would give him an incredibly powerful tool in his ambitions. He may have also seen it as a way to protect himself from the possibility of the Jedi prophecy being real by making it's chosen one his apprentice. A keeping your enemies close sort of situation just in case. 

And had his original plans ultimately happened in canon both prophecies would have been true.