It's time to discover how important Russia is to Trump

The MAGA propaganda machine has done an excellent job of misdirecting our attention so we are solely fixated on the Epstein files. We're being played.

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Journalist Seva Gunitsky wrote an excellent piece in Unherd on February 6th, which is well worth a read. Although I’m a subscriber to the publication, I can’t unfortunately gift this article. However, I’ve linked it here because you can subscribe for 3 months at a very low cost if you're interested (it cost me £3). The reason I’m drawing your attention to it is to help join up some dots in terms of the Epstein Russia connection that the administration doesn’t want anyone to focus on.

What people often fail to understand, is why Trump is almost obsessive in his admiration of Putin, its actually cringeworthy. In the context of US foreign policy, it makes no sense for a US president to have such an unhealthy obsession with a Russian president. Seva Gunitsky has done an excellent job in his article explaining why. He notes:

It should not be surprising that Russian names are all over the Epstein Files. Russia was the laboratory that birthed the modern transnational kleptocratic class. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created new oligarchs, as Soviet state assets were liquidated and former intelligence officers became freelancers. But it also created a global template that opportunistic would-be Western oligarchs could follow in their turn.

We all too often make the mistake of thinking politics is about people when, for the likes of Trump, everything is about MONEY and self-enrichment; nothing else matters.

Gunitsky continues:

The men who emerged from post-Soviet lawlessness — bespredel is the Russian term — built their fortunes by moving money across jurisdictions, leveraging kompromat, and treating governments as service providers instead of sovereigns. In this they were enabled by willing partners in the West, who provided the shell companies, the anonymous limited liability corporations, and the real estate loopholes. As Casey Michel has documented in American Kleptocracy, the US was not a victim of this corruption. Rather, it built the frameworks that enabled it.

There’s no question that Epstein was in bed with Mossad, but he was embedded in relationships across the Gulf and Europe, too. Be in no doubt, he was good at what he did, and that’s why the wealthy elite flocked to him. He wasn’t just a money man; he was a fixer prepared to do whatever it took to build important relationships, and that’s why pedophilia and sexual abuse were on the table, as well as drugs and money laundering. It just so happens that pedophilia was his own personal weakness. Sex was just a very small part of what was an industrial-scale transnational criminal enterprise, not dissimilar to that being operated from the Oval Office today.

The Epstein’s network of influence stretched around the globe, and there was no political allegiance involved. Communism, dictatorships, or capitalism; they were meaningless in the context of Epstein’s work, which revolved solely around power and wealth. His was an exclusive club whose patrons were the who’s who of the world’s wealthy elite.

This operation is the perfect crime against humanity, where the co-conspirators included world leaders, royalty, bankers and industry titans, all complicit in the collusion with organised crime and state security services. They formed an alliance in the service of wealth and greed at the expense of ‘the unwashed’ (that would be us, by the way). Members of the club can rest assured that key players in organised crime and state security services will never go on the record to admit their role in such criminal activity. Finally, they took comfort in the fact that ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". Membership provided a ‘moral all expenses paid holiday’.

It has to be understood that had Trump not campaigned on releasing the Epstein files, we would likely not be having this conversation, because no administration of any colour wanted this to result in the gaping geopolitical wound it has the potential to become. Any Democrat attempting to take the moral high ground on this issue must recognise that, were it not politically beneficial, I fear the victims of Epstein would never see justice for the abhorrent crimes committed against them as children and young women. Even now, given the enormous public interest, it’s unclear whether justice will ever be served. They are tragically in this moment, mere political pawns, and as the father of a daughter sexually abused as a child, that makes me incandescent with rage.

Returning to the Russian connection. The Dossier Centre is a London-based non-profit investigative organisation founded in 2017 by Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which maps Russian corruption. According to their reporting, one of Epstein’s most frequent contacts was Sergey Belyakov, a graduate of the FSB Academy who served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia from 2012 to 2014. He later became the head of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum Foundation.

The Dossier Centre reported that Epstein had reached out to Belyakov in 2014:

To deal with a Russian model who was blackmailing American businessmen, as well as proposing to arrange meetings with Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Central Bank Deputy Chairman Alexei Simanovsky. For his part, Epstein advised Belyakov on saving the Russian economy amid imposed sanctions, while also recruiting high-profile guests for SPIEF.

It appears he reached out because the St. Petersburg Economic Forum Foundation, which Belyakov headed, ran the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which appears to have facilitated escorts from across Russia. The critical point is that Epstein had high-level access within the Russian government and was advising it on how to address US sanctions in 2014. This was in clear contravention of US foreign policy.

Belyakov was not a fleeting, coincidental connection; this was a potential FSB operative who was connected to a sex blackmailing operation, which, for example, was tied to the scandal:

“…with the oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and Sergei Prikhodko, Deputy Chairman of the Russian government. Compromising materials on high-profile businessmen and politicians.”

Belyakov was close to the Russian economic elite, and this is a consistent pattern in the relationships Epstein cultivated in his role as fixer. He had access to the wealthiest people on the planet, and sex blackmail, it seems, was frequently used by him to gain leverage. This is the self-confessed best friend of Donald Trump, and before anybody gets all self-righteous, he was also tight with Bill Clinton, it would appear.

As noted by Unherd:

Epstein helped Belyakov to locate tax havens and to evade sanctions; he also assisted in laundering the reputations of Russian intelligence officers, introducing them as legitimate businessmen to high-profile Americans to help them operate in the US without raising suspicion.

Now, I’m not sure about you, but this seems to suggest that a rich American fixer in an exclusive club that served the wealthy elite of America was aiding and abetting Russian Intelligence officers to operate under the radar on United States soil.

The name of the now late Vitaly Churkin, who was the former Russian Ambassador to the UN, appears numerous times in the Epstein files. Seva Gunitsky wrote:

” Epstein wrote in June 2018. “He understood Trump after our conversations. It is not complex.” This was sent weeks before the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit, where Trump sided with Russia, contradicting US intelligence. Epstein also pushed to meet Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, telling his frequent intermediary, former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland: “I think you might suggest to Putin that Lavrov can get insight on talking to me.”

There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that the connection between Trump and Putin goes far deeper than anyone imagines. Yes, Israel was a player, as it appears were security services from around the world. I fear Nobody will be allowed to get to the bottom of this because it has, by definition, become a risk to national security. More than that, I believe it could even pose a threat to global security; that’s how significant this is. It should be noted that anyone who has even attempted to leave their fight club seems to have met with a mysterious end, and if I’m honest, it scares me too.

How many people have been scratching their heads, wondering why Trump seems to have no problem with the dollar having lost 11% of its value since he took office? He is quoted as saying, when referring to the decreasing value of the dollar:

"I think it's great, look at the business we're doing. The dollar's doing great."

It certainly runs counter to the theory that this type of decline reflects an erosion of confidence in a country. As reported by NPR, those fears were at the heart of the "Sell America" trade last year.

Gunitsky noted:

Epstein also promoted de-dollarisation schemes such as BRIC currencies and crypto through his ties to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

The bottom line is that Trump does not give a damn about the US dollar; it’s the very reason he’s created his crypto pipeline by setting up World Liberty Financial with money from another member of the club, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan who now owns a 49% stake in the company after investing half a billion dollars in the venture just days before Trump was inaugurated. He deposited 50% of his investment into Trump entities ($187 billion). Tahnoon, by the way, is the brother of the UAE president and their national security advisor.

This is a man who has long sought access to the latest NVIDIA AI chips, which Biden denied on security grounds, citing the UAE's relationship with China. However, as reported in the Wall Street Journal (this link is gifted, so it’s not behind a paywall), by a team of journalists, including Sam Kessler, Rebecca Ballhaus, Eliot Brown, and Angus Berwick. They noted:

Trump’s election reopened the door for him. In the months that followed, Tahnoon met multiple times with Trump, Witkoff and other U.S. officials, including in a March visit to the White House where the sheikh told officials he was eager to work with the U.S. on AI and other issues, according to people familiar with the matter.

Two months after the March meeting, the administration committed to give the tiny Gulf monarchy access to around 500,000 of the most advanced AI chips a year—enough to build one of the world’s biggest AI data centre clusters.

Trump came into this term with a plan and a fix that I believe was established in his first term. I believe this plan was developed in the background during the Biden administration.

The connections are everywhere. Epstein had a conveyor belt of women with close ties to Russian security services whom he could deploy at will. There is no question that he was a top-tier operator, and anyone suggesting he was just a useful idiot should seek medical help. This was a man operating on multiple fronts, transferring billions in wealth to the top 1%.

Returning to the excellent work of Seva Gunitsky, he uncovered:

An email from 2015 finds Epstein pitching Peter Thiel, chairman of the Palantir, in order to set up a meeting in Palo Alto with his “very good friend” Belyakov, who was organising an “innovation conference in Moscow”. Epstein had previously facilitated meetings between Thiel and Churkin. The connection between Palantir’s surveillance capabilities and Moscow’s interests was framed as just another networking opportunity among friends.

I understand there’s a great deal of information to absorb, and rest assured, I am doing my best to present this in a way that helps you understand the timeline and how, even after Epstein’s so-called suicide, for the Epstein class, the show must go on. It’s terrifying to me that this cabal appears to be suggesting privately that the US dollar is to be considered acceptable collateral damage in their new world order.

In the next episode, I want to delve a little deeper into the alleged ‘Russiagate' hoax as Trump loves to portray it, because it has Epstein’s fingerprints all over it. I know this investigative work seems less newsworthy than child sexual abuse, but without having an understanding of the big picture, we are walking in the dark towards a cliff edge we just can’t see.

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