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Feb 4 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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1/Last August we launched a series of investigative articles asking: “Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West?”

You should read it. Six installments (so far), each covering an important part of the bigger picture. We start at SFI.
america2.news/part-one-just-…
2/On Epstein’s good friend John Brockman, and his efforts to infiltrate the worlds of science and culture.

america2.news/part-two-jeffr…
3/On efforts by Epstein to infiltrate and operationalize Brockman’s “Edge”network.

america2.news/part-three-wha…
4/An in-depth look at Epstein’s ties to Russia and the FSB.

america2.news/part-four-maki…
5/On Epstein’s early connection to the Zimmerman family, and Maharishi International University — a target for KGB influence and a major influence on Putin-ally Ray Dalio.

america2.news/part-five-epst…
6/On “Conscious Evolution” and “Game B” — a look at a network that evolved from SFI into the Intellectual Dark Web and beyond.

america2.news/part-six-epste…
7/In part 7, we’ll dive into Epstein’s murky past and his relationship with Stanley Pottinger, a one-time partner and later an “adversary” who was representing Epstein’s victims. But was that a feint, and did Pottinger have KGB ties as well?

Anyway, Epstein’s activities have been congruent with Russian influence activities in the West for decades. We are now finally seeing that bigger picture emerge, but nothing we found prior to this disagrees with what we now know.

The real question is why no one (other than us) would put in the time to unearth any of this until now.

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Feb 4
If you want to understand Epstein-Israel better, consider Russia’s desire for influence and control of Israel. Where they have significant influence through the Lubavitch network (which is hooked into Jared Kushner, Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu) they could obtain additional leverage and control through one of Netanyahu’s rivals, Ehud Barak.

Epstein sat at the intersection of those two networks and thus had hooks into multiple Israeli power factions. Epstein wasn’t working “for” Israel, but rather maintaining it as part of his portfolio, on Putin’s behalf.
As the evidence now shows overwhelmingly and conclusively that Epstein was advancing Russia’s influence agenda on multiple fronts, this becomes much more clear. Epstein had thousands of US contacts as well, but that doesn’t mean he was working for US interests. Indeed, he was not. If you look at *what* he was doing and ask “cui bono?,” the answer is always Putin and his global influence network.
I've covered this in detail before, but Russian propagandists have leaned heavily on latent antisemitism for over a century to provide cover for their own activities, starting with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Filipp Bobkov developed modern 21st century strategies; they also backed Yasser Arafat and helped amplify Palestinian identity and grievances.

None of this is to provide cover to the Netanyahu regime's murderous actions in Gaza. But if you want to understand what Epstein was doing, it's necessary to put aside all of that and study this objectively. Epstein was working to exert influence in (at minimum) the US, Europe, and Israel. His "Israeli ties" are well explained by that objective alone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Bo…
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Feb 4
1/Now that people are ready to hear it, Noam Chomsky was a founding member of the International Tribunal of Natural Justice, a FSB-aligned group responsible for spreading the most insane QAnon and COVID disinformation, founded by conspiracy theorist Sacha Stone, Image
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2/ITNJ was founded in 2015, and Chomsky was involved from the beginning. We spotted these ties in 2020 but many assumed he had been “tricked” or “didn’t understand.” But this was exactly when he was palling around with Bannon and Epstein. In his own words…
3/Sacha Stone is also a longtime collaborator with Jeffrey Sachs, who everybody can now see is a full Putinist. The “Sustainable Development Goals” Sachs claims to advocate for have been hijacked by Putin to serve his “Noospheric” agenda.
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Feb 1
1/It’s time to say this clearly, as you can see it with your own two eyes finally: Epstein was interacting first and foremost with Russia-aligned interests and was touching nearly every active measures and disinformation agent that has roiled Western democracies…
2/He is not plotting with “Israeli handlers.” He is coordinating with Putin, FSB agents, and their collaborators in the US and elsewhere, including Ehud Barak. What people don’t understand is the relationship between Russia and Israel which is long and complex…
3/For decades Russia has sought leverage and control in the Levant region. The KGB backed Yasser Arafat and fueled Palestinian conflict as a leverage mechanism. Robert Maxwell was involved in emigration of Soviet Jews into Israel. The Lubavitcher cult, founded in Russia…
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Jan 31
1/Trump’s Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is the son in law of Trump’s Greenland whisperer (and major Greenland investor) Ron Lauder. Warsh also was partying with Epstein at Christmas in 2010, two years after Epstein’s conviction.
2/Trump was targeted on orders of KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov; specifically at a 1986 lunch run by Leonard Lauder, Ron’s brother, both of whom helped run Estes Lauder cosmetics. Trump traveled to Moscow in 1987 with the help of Epstein pal Vitaly Churkin and Kryuchkov’s brother in law, journalist and KGB agent Genrikh Borovik.
3/Robert Maxwell was tapped by Kryuchkov around the same time to exfiltrate Communist party funds into scores of Western bank accounts with the help of Maxwell’s contacts, which included Semion Mogilevich. Many involved in that operation “died” in/after the August 1991 “failed coup.”
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Jan 5
I regret to inform that this is all very simple, and dumb: since 2017, Putin has been trying to goad Trump into seizing Venezuela and Greenland. Putin thinks this will cement the “Monroe Doctrine” as US policy, which he thinks will drive US disengagement from Ukraine.

This effort failed in 2019 because it was blocked by John Bolton, Fiona Hill, Rex Tillerson, and other cabinet officials who considered these proposals but found them unwise.

Putin’s efforts to goad Trump resumed in 2025, first with renewed interest in Greenland, second with Venezuela. The Venezuela dangle worked, and there were no adults to stop it, and plenty of profiteers eager to help.

Now he’s after Cuba and Greenland, which Putin thinks (again) will catalyze US disengagement in Ukraine, which he hopes will give him a freer hand there, as well as reorient US power in the Western Hemisphere and away from Europe.

That’s it. That’s what’s going on. Oil, minerals, peace prizes are all part of the dangle. But this is the whole ballgame.
Receipts, part 1.
Receipts, part 2.
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Jan 5
🚨 Important context here: not only did Russia try to goad Trump into moving on Venezuela in 2019 to force US disengagement in Ukraine, Russia also drove the idea of the “US buying Greenland” by forging a letter to US Senator Tom Cotton, who brought the idea to Trump.
More smoking guns. Ron Lauder also pushed the idea in 2017.

“The national security adviser at the time, John Bolton, told his aide Fiona Hill to put together a team to look at possible ideas.”

The same team who considered and blocked Russia’s Venezuela proposal also considered and blocked the Greenland deal.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
And of course this did not end well for John Bolton. Patel’s FBI raided his home in September and he has been indicted on 18 counts by a Federal grand jury for “mishandling” information included in his 2020 book that sheds light on these incidents.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
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