Lmao yeah sure, anything but Mossad
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Kill all rich people.
I’m innocent, I swear. I’m just an index fund guy :(
Death is too good for most of them
There's no citation of the files, though. Did anyone find a confirmation? For all known previously, Epstein attempted to make ties with Russian government officials, including Putin, but it wasn't known that Epstein actually was working for Putin.
There’s no citation of the files, though. Did anyone find a confirmation?
Nice try Tankie, but we're not falling for it
Let's see, Epstein had:
- a very close relationship with Ehud Barak, who visited him around 30 times that we know of. https://apnews.com/article/epstein-israel-us-barak-politics-5709588906fb10cd51bb49f30a9825d2
- a close relationship to Yoni Koren, Ehud's aid, who stayed at Epstein's residence for extended periods
- donated to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) and to Jewish National Fund (JNF) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/epstein-funded-pro-israel-groups-including-1-settlement-building-fbi-documents-show/3824046
- Israeli government installed/managed security equipment and controlled access at his Manhattan residence https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/19/israel-installed-security-at-epsteins-manhattan-apartment-for-ex-pm-barak
- urged Doha to forge links with Israel to stay in the good graces of Donald Trump https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/epstein-tried-build-web-powerful-ties-across-middle-east-documents-show-2026-02-18/
- Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, is strongly alleged to have ties to Israeli intelligence
- FBI informant says he was an Israeli spy https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/fbi-informant-became-convinced-epstein-was-israeli-spy-government-document/3820659
- ran a “honeytrap/blackmail” operation for Israel https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-media-barely-touches-epstein-links-israeli-intelligence/50822#%3A%7E%3Atext=Wexner+became+Epstein%27s+biggest+financial%2Cclose+relationship+with+Robert+Maxwell.%E2%80%9D
- mossad debriefed with Epstein's lawyer after his calls with him, who happens to also be literally Israel's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/fbi-informant-became-convinced-epstein-was-israeli-spy-government-document/3820659
The list goes on, but sure, if someone asks why the government who's been protecting and redacting the names of the pedophiles and holding back and scrubbing the files is insisting without providing evidence that the obvious Israeli asset is actually a Russian spy is a Tankie.
Jesus Christ!
Huh? Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.
If you're ready to spread whatever you hear as long as it supports your views, here you are: Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency. Go ahead, make a headline.
Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.
Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.
Better for whom?
Listen, we're at war with an existential foreign evil. And I believe anything negative we can say about that foreign power furthers the war effort. Therefore, we MUST believe it, whether or not it is true.
Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency.
You joke, but we did this one already, back in 2016. "Torturing children to eat them for their magic youth chemicals" was a popular mythology for the Alex Jones crowd.
And we believed it, God damnit, because we needed to beat the Chinese Communist plant Hillary Clinton.
Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.
Obviously, solar power is itself a hoax perpetrated by anti-American climate activists. So it's exactly the kind of lie a Chinese Communist Tankie would spread.
I believe Xi Jinping's fake degenerate solar panels are undermining Western Civilization. If he's installing them, he must be stopped at all costs.
If you see a solar panel, it is your duty to smash it. Fuck the CCP!
Officially, Putin collects a modest salary, though a financier alleged to Congress in 2017 that the Russian president "has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains" through corruption and criminal activity
He's been running Russia for decades, I would highly doubt that his net worth is less than a trillion dollars. He is in that rare atmosphere of wealth that travels ABOVE mere billionaires like Musk. He's up there with the people that are NOT included in the Forbes list, those who are so wealthy and powerful that Forbes knows not to mention their names in some gauche rich guy competition. That includes certain monarchs, Sheikhs, the Rothschilds, etc. Usually long generational wealth that is so large, there almost isn't even a category for it. Putin is in THAT club. Musk WISHES he could get in that club.
Valid. Good perspective.
We still haven't figured out exactly what Epstein was up to. We don't know if he was working for Israel, Russia, somebody else, or was a free agent, collecting material.amd selling to any and all buyers. We think about politics, but he was probably selling info to corporate interests as well.
We know something was up, the smoke is as thick and choking as any political tire fire in recent world history, but we just don't know the source. Blackmail is the usual assumption, but as far as I know, nothing has ever turned up in the files that indicates any hint of a blackmail plot from either side.
Perhaps they were just careful? SOMEBODY would have slipped, somewhere in all those years. Perhaps MAGA is keeping them all hidden? Plausible, but MAGA is notorious for being virtuosically incompetent, and they would have accidentally let slip a few clues and hints, or even downright proof.
So, perhaps Putin was somewhat "forced" to use Epstein in some way, through some currently unknown mechanism, but Putin would have kept him fairly quarantined.
And Epstein was known to play up his connections to influential people he barely knew, portraying them as close friends, if he thought it would ingratiate himself to a new prospect.
We don’t know if he was working for Israel, Russia, somebody else, or was a free agent, collecting material.amd selling to any and all buyers.
I can't help but suspect the CIA is on that list due to the lack of interference from US law enforcement time and time again.
CIA and Mossad are joined at the hip
What if "Epstein Class" is more on the nose than people seem to realize?
What if what Epstein was actually an expert at was manipulating human behavior, and his role in the world above all was helping suppress the lower classes through economics and psychological operations? To me, some of the stuff in the Epstein files looks like some of the stuff in the MK ultra files. After all, isn't being able to manipulate the masses what makes all that money so powerfully dangerous?
To me, some of the stuff in the Epstein files looks like some of the stuff in the MK ultra files
such as?
There's a lot of child abuse in the MK Ultra files with the goal seeming to be programming human behavior. They'd abuse kids to try and split their personalities and then bury ideas with in different personalities and that sort of thing, so people would act on trigger words and then not remember when they'd come to. It's been a long time since I've seen the files (some are publicly available after being discovered in an accounting wing of the CIA), but as I recall there's an instance where they use a trigger word to get a child to shoot a blank at their friend and when they come to they don't remember firing the weapon. It's extremely fucked up shit, and most of it was covered up and destroyed, so the extent to which it was successful and or continued is relatively unknown, but if you think about how much technology has advanced since the 60-70s and how much data they've collected, there are probably experts at this, and I'd imagine they wouldn't have an official government position, but would be very well connected. Obviously, this is a lot of speculation on my part.
That explains how he was able to get a freakin' island.
The guy was Mossad/Israeli CIA. His accomplice Maxwell was the daughter of an Israeli spy. He had a map of a fantasy country called "greater Israel" on his wall in his home. He was best friends with former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak and let him live in one of his apartments. He called people "goyims," which come to find out is an Israeli supremacist term to refer to non-Jewish people. The whole US government is compromised with blackmail by Israel and/or bribed by Israel via AIPAC so that the US funds their wars and attack our own people for speaking out against genocide. Only online media will tell you this while the entire billionaire-owned corporate media covers for Israel.
Okay, but we're talking about how Russia is bad right now. Can you stay on message? Or are you one of those Pro-Putin accounts?
All true. If you know all this, you must know that Israel and Russia have been very close when it suits them to be. It's quite possible that Epstein had connections to lots of Russian powerful people.
The editors of that article want to spin the story that Jeffrey Epstein is a Russian agent. 😂 maybe the folks on Reddit will believe it. They should post it there first
The Mossad also managed the wiretapping and camera systems at Epsteins apartment and screened everyone going in and out. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-government-surveillance-epstein-apartment-66th-street-ehud-barak
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We're not in the timeline to doubt anything, but Putin strikes me, a Russian living in Russia and closely following the politics at least of my own country, especially from the not-so-safe side, as someone who would not choose someone he can't control and have in his grasp to run anything like this.
Not to mention his paranoia, ego mania and the alleged financial skills that, again, allegedly let him win a lot of trust among the people de-facto making big decisions in Russia before he wriggled into presidency.
I don't doubt that Putin had dedicated financial managers at some point, it's just hard to belive it could've been anyone like Epstein, i.e. someone outside Russia or even Moscow where Putin could blackmail and hurt them or at least first treaten them into obedience, even with the eventual murder somewhere outside Russia (Litvinenko poisioning).
Not that nothing unexpected and hard-to-believe hasn't been surfacing for a while already, though.
Did Russian money pass through Epstein? Assuredly.
Was he THE man who managed Putin's vast fortune through Russia and the rest of the world? Assuredly not.
"Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth manager and provided the same service for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe," the source claimed. PEOPLE has reached out to the Kremlin for comment.
People magazine, you keep shooting your shots... maybe one day you'll knock it out of the park.
Was he THE man who managed Putin’s vast fortune
Would be very convenient if he was. Just completely change the narrative surrounding who the national news should be talking about for the next month
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At this rate, by 2028, these assholes will tell us Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian KGB agent
Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian working in Russia for Vladimir Putin personally and nobody in the US was involved and if you suggest otherwise you're a bot account run by Antifa
Coleague of Mr. Krasnov?
British press is already there. Anything to pretend it wasn't Israel.
Why not both? And CIA too.
If Epstein was the financial manager of Putin's personal fortune, he would have been just another one. I doubt Putin puts all his eggs in one basket.
Epstein seemed like the type to try getting involved in as many people's issues as possible.
The establishment is trying to turn this into a russian thing, as that's their go to move. But this was a mossad honeypot, clearly done in conjunction with the CIA, which is a great betrayal of their mission, an executable offense, of treason, or it's facsimile, and carries a death sentence to hear the president talk about it.
The CIA isn't allowed to conduct operations in the country, allowing a foreign intelligence agency to accrue blackmail on politicians, and rich people, and the like, is a great betrayal, I don't know why no one has even dug into this, who was in charge when all of this happened, who authorized this at the CIA? Why are they given a pass?
This has been going on since the 80s. The Franklin scandal was also CIA and it also went no where.
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