Observations about the world, part twenty-three

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Intelligence operations |
Sunday – February 15, 2026

In my post on "sentimentalism" I briefly mentioned the Epstein files, and while I have no intention on dwelling about those in this post I thought I'd take the opportunity to present my views on the matter of "intelligence", because at the moment there's a lot of talk going around about Jeffrey Epstein and his supposed ties to intelligence, Israeli intelligence to be specific. Well, my views are that most likely this Epstein person was not an intelligence asset, but if he indeed was connected to intelligence, then it's actually more likely that he was a part, a node, in some kind of network and that he actually worked for the Americans. You see, when it comes to intelligence, it's just not the case that you're going to be better off sitting on your own "secret", and apart from that, it's very much a normal occurrence that "allies" spy on each other, just as much as they spy on their "enemies", but of course, the intelligence business goes even deeper than that; more often than not, you're going to be better off knowing that your "enemies" knows a lot about you, and of course, you're going to know a lot about your "enemies" as well. See, the point of intelligence being "leaked" or shared is that this can prevent your allies from stabbing you in the back and it can also make you be in control of your allies, and it can also deter your enemies from attacking you if you know a lot about them and if they know about you. See, intelligence, for the most part, doesn't work in the way most people imagine: see, intelligence is an asset and an asset that can make you powerful and more often than not intelligence about yourself is what really makes you powerful, not the other way around. So how does this connect to Epstein? Well, let's forget about Jeffrey Epstein, because I don't know enough about him, it connects to people like Epstein—provided he was an intel asset, something I doubt—in this way: the way Epstein likely gathered his money was through the laundering of "dark money" into real money or real assets, and after having done this, he likely got to keep a certain percentage, and most of the other money likely flowed into U.S. treasury bonds. See, this flow of dark money into the U.S. has to somehow be laundered once some intelligence operations is shut down, and that means that people like Epstein steps in and do the dirty work, but more importantly, this means that the U.S. is in control over that dark money flow and subsequently the information that is shared with allies and enemies. Sure, it may sound counterintuitive, but it does make a lot of sense. Allow my to use an historical example: people these days are throwing around the fairly cheap accusation against Israel, that they "stole" American nuclear secrets, as if America didn't allow this to happen, but what they miss is how this was beneficial to the U.S. See, the Israelis where going to construct a nuclear program whether the Americans liked it or not, and yes, America could've shut it down if they really wanted to, but realistically the U.S. wasn't going to do that. This meant that if the Israelis built their nuclear program using American so-called "secrets", the U.S. could actually be in some control over the Israeli nuclear program, as opposed to if the Israelis had run to someone else. See, it's not a secret how you build a nuclear weapon anyway but there are certain details that still matter when it comes to a particular nuclear weapon, such as launching mechanisms etc, and if the Israeli can build a nuclear weapon that you know more or less how it works, that gives you an advantage over them, as opposed to if you don't know those details. See, the Israelis building an "American" nuclear program is really just a way for both parties to be assured that they're not going to "back stab" each other. When an Israeli, for instance, intelligence operation is shut down in America, you can bet that the Americans will know about it, and that's the whole purpose, as I previously explained, of a "dark money" flow. Something similar is true for "enemies", as they also rely on dark money being laundered, and this gives two "enemy countries" a reciprocal way of controlling the flow of intel outbound. Also, when it comes to two "enemy" countries, they're both going to benefit from knowing a lot about each other, as I also previously mentioned, because knowing that a potential target has a lot of capability will more likely than not serve as a deterrence. Also, these "secrets" aren't secrets for long anyways, the point is not to keep the mechanisms of some weapon secret, because you can't keep them secret indefinitely anyways, it's to show off your capability.

    This post is somewhat out of tune with most posts on this page, and that's why I have a series called "Observations about the world series", where I can share my thoughts about stuff going on in the world, and yes this series is typically less focused on metaphysical matters; for that, read "Religion and Metaphysics".

    But back to "intelligence": why is Epstein relevant here? Well, as I've stated before, I don't find Jeffrey Epstein very relevant, but a lot of other people do, and I just felt that I should try to shut some of that noise down, because they're all wrong about Epstein, not that I think he was an intelligence asset anyways. But essentially, Jeffrey Epstein was more than likely an American intel asset if it turns out that he did conduct such operations, and his purpose was to help people spying on America launder their "dark money" once their intel operations shut down; this would make Jeffrey Epstein the ring leader of an intel whisper network, whose purpose was to again launder money and other assets, and such assets could've included people, which is why he had such a wide network of contacts, but again I still do not believe that he was an intel asset. This whole post has just been me attempting to put him, Jeffery Epstein, into some kind of context where he actually fits and makes sense as an intel asset. Of course, more likely than not he was no such thing, but again if he was an intel asset, the American's are going to be very happy with all the noise and talk about how he was working for Israel and the Rothschild's. Also, I categorically reject this lazy notion, an example of the propagation of sentimentalism, that America is this weak and poor country that is unable to stand up to Israel. No, it's quite the other way around and to a limited extent, all conspiracies about Israel controlling America are beneficial to the ruling class in charge of America, but these are topics well outside the scope of this blog.

    At least these are some of my observations about the world. I have no sources on this information that I have provided and I am sure that I am wrong about a lot of stuff, but this is just my assessment about a completely temporal matter anyways, but since I've mentioned, always in passing, the Jeffrey Epstein case I just felt it necessary to clarify my own views.

Reginald Drax – February 15, 2026.