why on earth russia would need a backchannel to entity remains like ??? they’ve got channels out of a wazoo in any case, there is like a million of russians in there

(it’s very straight-forward story how epstein was trying to get a connect to russian oligarch to get a putin meet with barak, to help push away assad in 2013-2015 (which didn’t happen in the end, until now lmao)) why on earth he couldn’t just arrive on a plane remains a mystery.