The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal explains on Judge Andrew Napolitano's Judging Freedom how President Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace functions as a vehicle for the Epstein Class to financialize Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and export the dystopian model to the rest of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oLiSYUyyY

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Epstein, Yermak, and Zelensky

by Thierry Meyssan

While Epstein may have seemed to enjoy committing his crimes, we must not forget that he worked for a secret service, Mossad. The horrors he committed were primarily a means of blackmailing his friends. Although, for the moment, no Ukrainian figure has been directly implicated, numerous elements compel us to investigate who, in Ukraine, supplied children to the Epstein network.

The Epstein affair is shaking all developed nations. Let’s summarize the facts: billionaire Jeffrey Epstein organized a network of informants for Mossad and the Franco-Swiss branch of the Rothschilds. To gain leverage over them, he gradually drew his targets (scientists, financiers, and politicians) into a series of increasingly atrocious games. Initially, he offered them extramarital affairs, then relationships with progressively younger partners, and finally, he involved them in torture, murder, and cannibalism. People who rise to positions of power in society may feel the need to test their authority. They can only measure it by the extent of their transgressions, engaging in universally condemned practices with impunity.

This type of blackmail is not new. We saw the Doucé affair in France (1990) and the Dutroux affair in Belgium (1995-1996). The truth about the targets of these blackmail schemes has never come to light. A few names of prominent figures have been mentioned, but the high-ranking criminals have never been arrested. What is new in the Epstein case is that the US justice system has 9 million pages of documents, a third of which it has already made public.

The Doucé and Dutroux cases involved blackmail orchestrated by NATO intelligence services. Their targets were not only in France and Belgium, but throughout the European Union. The targets who were used were not held accountable. They were available for new operations.

At this stage, 25 of Epstein’s targets have negotiated with the federal prosecutor. They have paid considerable sums to avoid prosecution and to ensure their names are not published. In the first 3 million documents released, all references to them have been redacted, while those of their victims appear in full.

We don’t know how the US Department of Justice chose the order in which to release the documents it possesses. For the moment, they only implicate European figures and spare its targets in the United States. Perhaps this is a coincidence, perhaps it’s a way to destabilize allies while waiting for public opinion, disgusted, to tire of the situation.

We do know, however, that former and current heads of state and government are involved. Some have leaked economic, financial, or commercial data; others, political, military, or diplomatic secrets. All have committed acts falling under criminal law and betrayed their country. Each time, unbeknownst to them, the recipient of this information was the State of Israel, or at least a faction within its government.

Regularly, informants—some manipulated witnesses, others mentally ill, and sometimes—much more rarely—genuine witnesses—have denounced the participation of prominent figures in satanic cults.

To date, the only known head of state whose entourage practices black masses characteristic of this type of cult is the unelected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. For several years, appalling rumors have circulated about him without any possibility of verification. However, on January 31, Yulia Mendel, Zelensky’s former press secretary, revealed that his trusted confidant, Andriy Yermak, the former head of his now-disgraced administration, practices black masses [1]. He brought in Chabad cultists from Israel, Georgia, and Latin America. According to her, “Yermak burned herbs and collected bodily fluids to make dolls.” Within two weeks, the Ukrainian internet was flooded with caricatures and jokes about “Yermak the Magician,” who had predicted to Zelensky that Russia would never intervene in Ukraine. Under the pseudonym “Ali Baba,” Yermak was also at the head of a vast corruption network, revealed during Operation Midas [2].

Since his suspension, Yermak has resumed his work as a lawyer. According to the Ukrainian press, he goes to a gym every morning and then to his office in the afternoon. Journalists, who follow him everywhere he goes, have observed him visiting the homes of Oleksandr Kamyshin, the director of the railways, and Rustem Umierov, secretary of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine, who is now under investigation in the Midas case. Most notably, he visited Yevgen Korniychuk, the controversial former Minister of Justice who served as ambassador to Israel (2021-2023). He is the son-in-law of Vasyl Onopenko, President of the Supreme Court. Finally, Yermak’s lawyer, Ihor Fomin, and Yevgen Korniychuk went together to see Timur Mindich (Volodymyr Zelensky’s business associate, now a fugitive) in Herzliya, Israel. [3]

Among the third of Epstein’s known documents are several Ukrainian passports, but the Department of Justice has redacted the names, addresses, and photos of the holders with whom Epstein associated. Furthermore, other documents attest that Epstein traveled to Kyiv several times and tasked the Frenchman Jean-Luc Brunel with shopping there. Brunel was the director of the modeling agencies Karin Models (Paris) and E=MC2 (Miami). He was charged in France with pimping and had the good sense (like Epstein) to "commit suicide" in La Santé prison. Timur Mindich was also the director of the Fire Point modeling agency (Kyiv). However, it is unknown how many young Ukrainian men and women fell into their clutches.

It is in this context that Volodymyr Vatras, a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s (Parliament) Legal Affairs Committee, submitted a draft reform of the Ukrainian Civil Code on February 6, 2026 [4].

Besides protecting the reputation of those prosecuted for corruption until their final conviction, this bill lowers the age of marriage to 14. Let’s be clear about what this means: consequently, any prosecution for child abduction or rape of children aged 14 to 18 will become impossible under other Ukrainian laws. The Ukrainian press refers to this as "state-sponsored pedophilia" [5]. Many Ukrainians, relying on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, have launched petitions against this regressive reform [6]. You still haven’t grasped what this is about: this reform will be retroactive and will apply to all events after 2014 (that is, after the Maidan coup). This reform abolishes the provisions of the Ukrainian Penal Code against pedophilia [7].

Do you know of any state in the world, today or in the past, that has lowered the age of marriage retroactively? No, of course not.

Let’s remember that the Ukrainian government accuses Russia of having abducted 900,000 children. Moscow, which disputes this figure, argues that it did not capture them, but rather collected them from the battlefield and brought them to Russia to protect them from the war. To date, Ukraine has only released a list of 339 children whose names the Zelensky administration is demanding. Where are the thousands of others?

The answer lies somewhere in the still-secret 6 million pages of the Epstein case.

Hunter Biden’s medical experiments on Ukrainian soldiers outraged you;

the Zelensky clique’s abductions of Ukrainian children will make you sick.

Speaking before the Verkhovna Rada on February 11, MK Inna Sovsun declared: "The standard that the members of the Law Commission are trying to pass, regarding marriage with 14-year-olds, is pure barbarity. It contradicts common sense and European standards. How many other problems there are in this code, we don’t know. Therefore, I join the lawyers’ demands to remove the draft Civil Code from consideration, to examine it carefully again in committee, to discuss it in society, and only then to submit it to Parliament."

Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and ideologue of the Servant of the People party (Zelensky’s party), invested considerable effort both in drafting this Civil Code and in defending it before his assembly. He is a scientist and educator who has long worked with children. He, too, is implicated in the Midas case. However, all the experts have pointed out that his statements do not correspond to the text as presented. Stefanchuk was in Washington last week. On February 7, he met with Riley M. Barnes, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Rights. He explained at length that no Ukrainian children had «disappeared», but that 900,000 had been captured by Russia.

Upon returning to Kyiv, Ruslan Stefanchuk faced a public outcry. He admitted that, as it stood, he could not submit the draft of the new Civil Code to a parliamentary vote. But the problem that this reform clumsily attempted to bury remains.

We currently know only a third of the Epstein case. When we have more information, we will have to inventory what information he possessed and examine how Israel used it.

Thierry Meyssan
Translation
Roger Lagassé

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