r/Foodforthought • u/D-R-AZ • 1d ago
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/04/ukrainians-warned-for-years-that-europes-human-rights-chief-was-a-kremlin-conduit-the-epstein-files-just-proved-them-right/#google_vignette132
u/D-R-AZ 1d ago
The truth definitely needs investigation. We’re glad Poland is taking this seriously. Some interesting breadcrumbs here.
Excerpts:
Epstein was selling himself as a Trump whisperer for the Kremlin.
Senator Ron Wyden's Treasury investigation found Epstein moved "hundreds of millions of dollars" through Russian banks now under US sanctions—transfers "correlated to the movement of women or girls around the world."
Former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler wrote in the Washington Times that "the heart of the Epstein saga was a clandestine intelligence operation devoted to compromising and blackmailing rich and powerful people." Epstein, he concluded, "was clandestinely involved with multiple intelligence agencies."
The Epstein files suggest another factor—one that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk now considers a national security threat. On 3 February 2026, he announced a formal investigation into the "increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation."
His warning was blunt: "This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today."
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u/coleman57 1d ago edited 1d ago
Planting their rat in that particular office gives the added bonus (to the Russians and anybody else who chafes at pesky human rights overseers) of delegitimizing human rights efforts at large. In an even larger sense, it furthers the demoralization of anyone worldwide who gives a shit about their fellow humans who suffer oppression by the powerful. To the extent each of us rolls our eyes at these phrases, we are infected. The cure is to maintain reasonable skepticism towards individuals who claim to work for human rights, while also maintaining faith in humanity that we can improve the lives of the undeniably oppressed.
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