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From a geopolitical standpoint, this is probably the most interesting Epstein email: an exchange between him and Peter Thiel in which Thiel says that the grand "plan" of U.S. foreign policy is to make the world "a mess" in order to be less involved abroad. The idea being, I imagine, that if everyone is warring and divided, they're kept weak vis a vis the U.S. and U.S. intervention becomes unnecessary. Which is, incidentally, pretty much what happened during WW2: the US let Europe and Asia bleed each other dry before stepping in at the end as the last economy standing - which is essentially how American hegemony was born. It's the famous Harry Truman quote: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible."
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