EPSTEIN, THE ROTHSCHILDS, AND THE OBAMA STATE DEPARTMENT: THE SHOCKING UKRAINE COUP THEY BUILT TOGETHER — AND HOW THEY ALL CASHED IN
Good morning, I’m taking a break from the morning recap of the ongoing events in Iran to bring you an exclusive in the realm of the Epstein files.
Against the darkened blue and gold of Ukraine’s flag — colors now shadowed by years of conflict and hidden power plays — three formidable factions converged in a web of influence that shaped history. The ancient Rothschild banking empire, Jeffrey Epstein and his sprawling networks, and key figures from the Obama administration’s State Department — Victoria Nuland, Geoffrey Pyatt, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and William J. Burns — formed an alliance that operated in the shadows.
Before you read further, I have two requests, first listen to this:
The call is the public face of the very policy machinery that created the chaos Epstein and the Edmond de Rothschild Group treated as a business opportunity. Within months of the coup, the Rothschild network moved in: they took over assets tied to the first post-coup president, Petro Poroshenko, and gained influence in Ukrainian energy entities through debt-equity plays.
Secondly, now look at these names and the parts they played:
• Senior Obama State Department officials Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt openly scripted Ukraine’s new government while Epstein’s network was already embedded
• Secretary of State John Kerry oversaw the entire operation as Epstein maintained direct ties to him and his inner circle
• Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, laid the groundwork for Obama’s Ukraine policy while Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk poured millions into the Clinton Foundation — making Ukrainian donors among Hillary’s biggest foreign contributors in the 2016 election cycle
• Ghislaine Maxwell alleged that she and Jeffrey Epstein helped formulate and launch the Clinton Global Initiative, with Epstein described as part of the original group that conceived it and Maxwell playing a central role in planning, budgeting, and even wiring $1 million to fund the inaugural event
• Rothschild CEO Ariane de Rothschild received an email from Epstein celebrating the “Ukraine upheaval” as a source of “many opportunites” — weeks after Nuland’s plan was executed
• Epstein ran modeling agency pipelines out of Kyiv and Odesa while securing a $25 million contract with the Edmond de Rothschild Group
• Former Obama Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a key economic architect, exchanged direct messages with Epstein discussing Zelensky “looking for help” and the need for guidance from experienced players, keeping Epstein tied to top Obama-era economic networks years after the coup
• Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns was John Kerry’s number two at the State Department, he later ran the CIA’s covert war machine in the very conflict born from that 2014 Victoria Nuland phone call. As everything was unfolding he met privately with Jeffrey Epstein in Washington and New York just months after the regime change was completed.
Here is the complete, documented picture.
In this exclusive report, I connect every documented thread into one unbroken chain: the Obama State Department’s engineered Ukraine regime change, Jeffrey Epstein’s direct operational bridge to the Edmond de Rothschild financial dynasty led by Ariane de Rothschild, the precise profit opportunities Epstein flagged in real time, and the international accountability that has already begun while the United States remains silent.
What it means is simple and damning. A convicted sex offender since 2008 became the trusted intermediary linking the highest levels of American power with one of the world’s most powerful banking dynasties. The Nuland-Pyatt call scripted the coup. Epstein and Rothschild moved in to monetize the aftermath.
The French raid on the Paris headquarters of Edmond de Rothschild bank on March 21, 2026, marks the latest and most visible ripple from the U.S. Justice Department’s January 30 release of millions of Epstein files.
The raid itself targeted Edmond de Rothschild as part of a preliminary corruption probe into Fabrice Aidan, a former French diplomat and ex-bank employee from 2014 to 2016 who had served at the United Nations. Aidan’s name appears in more than 200 Epstein documents, including emails from his personal and U.N. accounts between 2010 and 2016 in which he funneled confidential material — U.N. Security Council briefings, reports, and even a readout of a call between former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Turkey’s foreign minister — to Epstein. The investigation centers on suspicions of bribery of a foreign public official and complicity. Ariane de Rothschild, CEO of the Swiss private bank, was physically present during the searches. The institution has stated it is fully cooperating and has launched its own internal review.
This raid is no anomaly. Epstein’s ties to the Rothschild network were deep, operational, and ongoing for years after his 2008 conviction. Starting in 2013, Epstein and Ariane de Rothschild exchanged thousands of emails — more than 5,000 total from 2013 to 2019 — and held more than a dozen in-person meetings in New York and Paris. Epstein openly positioned himself in correspondence as a representative and advisor to Rothschild interests. He pitched the bank — then managing around $160 billion — for tech and investment deals, including life-settlement funds and European equity vehicles. A 2016 email chain routed through Epstein discussed potential collaborations between Apollo Global Management and Rothschild executives on financial products. These arrangements continued until shortly before Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
The timeline locks the connections together with surgical precision:
Pre-2014 groundwork: Epstein maintained more than 200 emails with Fabrice Aidan while Aidan was at the United Nations from 2006 to 2013, the exact period when Obama administration Ukraine and Russia policy was coordinated through U.N. channels that fed straight into the State Department under John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Aidan sent Epstein confidential U.N. Security Council briefings and material from both personal and U.N. accounts. In 2014 Aidan transitioned directly to the Edmond de Rothschild Group. Epstein’s real-time access to this UN-State pipeline gave him advance insight into the Maidan buildup and allowed him to position the Rothschild bank for the outcome.
Late January 2014: The Nuland-Pyatt call. While Victoria Nuland, reporting to John Kerry, and Geoffrey Pyatt openly scripted the post-Yanukovych government — pushing Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister, sidelining Vitali Klitschko, suggesting the U.N. to “glue this thing,” and declaring “Fuck the EU” — Epstein’s network was already embedded. John Kerry, whose black book entry in the Epstein files lists seven phone numbers and who had received $4,000 in campaign donations from Epstein between 1991 and 2002, oversaw the operation. A longtime Kerry political ally and top Democratic fundraiser, Robert Crowe, conducted documented business dealings with Epstein during the exact period Kerry ran the State Department, including a controversial lobbying campaign.
February 22, 2014: Yanukovych is ousted. Every element of the Nuland blueprint is executed exactly as discussed.
March 2014: Epstein emails Ariane de Rothschild confirming the “upheaval” as a profit engine. Epstein’s documented role in Ukraine went far beyond that single email. He treated the country as both a financial opportunity for the Rothschild network and a practical operational base. The Rothschild bank later took over business assets linked to the first post-coup president, Petro Poroshenko, and gained influence in Ukrainian state energy entities such as Naftogaz through debt and equity arrangements. Epstein also pitched post-Maidan opportunities to figures like Richard Branson. His files reveal repeated practical engagement with Ukraine, including coordination with two Kyiv-based modeling agencies (Linea 12 Models and L-Models). He arranged flights for women from Kyiv and Odesa, stays at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv, and payments or gifts. One Ukrainian model, Nastya N., scouted young girls for Epstein from roughly 2015 to 2019.
In return, he funded her U.S. education, airfare, beauty salon visits in New York, and gifts including a $3,500 laptop. Warnings appear in some correspondence about the danger involved for certain recruits. Epstein also discussed purchasing a mansion on Borys Romanytsky Street in Lviv through Ukrainian-born intermediaries, including art dealer Anastasiya Siroochenko. Lviv appears over 100 times in some file analyses, sometimes linked to bank accounts or transactions. Epstein followed Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election closely. In correspondence he noted that “Zelensky looking for help” and that inexperienced players may need guidance from experienced figures.
August–September 2014: While the new Ukrainian government consolidated power, Epstein held three documented meetings with Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns, John Kerry’s number-two and a key Iran negotiator. The first was an in-person lunch on August 21 at the Washington, D.C., offices of Steptoe & Johnson. Epstein’s calendar shows he had visited the U.S. Treasury that morning. Two follow-ups occurred at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in early September.
Epstein followed up by text on September 1 and later emailed that when “John Kerry might be busy for awhile, they will turn to Bill Burns who will need more help.” Burns has acknowledged the contacts but described them as career-transition advice.
2014–2015: Epstein maintained heavy correspondence with former Obama White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler, who arranged a 2015 White House tour for Woody Allen at Epstein’s request while noting Epstein himself was “too politically sensitive.”
He also kept ongoing contact with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Epstein put Ariane de Rothschild directly in touch with Ruemmler. Summers, a key economic architect of the Obama administration, later exchanged messages with Epstein explicitly discussing Zelensky “looking for help” and the need for guidance from experienced players — keeping Epstein plugged into top Obama-era economic networks long after the 2014 upheaval and showing how financial and political influence circles remained intertwined.
October 2015: Epstein’s Southern Trust Company, a Virgin Islands entity, signed a $25 million contract with the Edmond de Rothschild Group for “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms.” The deal came after Epstein helped mediate internal family tensions, such as those between Ariane and David de Rothschild, and assisted with a U.S. DOJ settlement involving the bank. The timing followed the coup, the Burns meetings, and Epstein’s explicit Ukraine profit forecast.
Burns went on to serve as CIA Director from 2021 to 2025. In that role he oversaw the agency’s extensive covert support for Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion — the direct escalation of the 2014 upheaval Epstein and Rothschild had positioned themselves to exploit. Burns made multiple secret trips to Kyiv, directed intelligence-sharing operations, and publicly warned that sustained U.S. aid was essential to prevent Ukrainian collapse. The same William J. Burns who sat privately with Epstein in the immediate post-coup window later managed the intelligence architecture of the war that grew out of it.
The Clinton connection completes the circle and deepens the Ukraine ties across the entire network. While Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk — a major proponent of closer EU ties for Ukraine — funneled millions into the Clinton Foundation, making Ukrainian donors among Hillary’s largest foreign contributors ahead of the 2016 election.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s own statements and the Epstein files confirm that she and Epstein played a central role in formulating and launching the Clinton Global Initiative, with Epstein described as part of the original group that conceived it and Maxwell coordinating planning, budgets, and funding. This Clinton Foundation node sat at the heart of the same transnational web that linked Epstein’s access to Obama-era officials, Rothschild financial positioning, and the post-Maidan profit machine in Ukraine.
The ties extend even further into the server controversies that surfaced during the 2016 election cycle. Allegations persist that Clinton’s deleted emails — or the DNC servers central to the hack investigation — were connected to Ukraine, with CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC to investigate the breach, becoming a focal point. CrowdStrike’s co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch has Ukrainian roots, and conspiracy narratives claimed the DNC servers were never fully examined by the FBI and were instead “hidden” or handled through Ukrainian-linked channels.
These claims, amplified in political discourse, underscore how Ukraine served as both a geopolitical chessboard and a potential data haven for the same elite networks Epstein, Rothschild interests, and Clinton-era figures navigated, further entangling financial, political, and intelligence operations in the region.
Worth noting: The international consequences have been swift and public. Foreign figures entangled in the files have faced arrests, charges, resignations, and forced removals: Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson arrested in the UK; former French Culture Minister Jack Lang resigned; Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland charged with aggravated corruption; Norway’s former ambassador Mona Juul resigned; Slovakia’s Miroslav Lajcak resigned; Dubai’s Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem replaced.
Foreign news outlets RThas covered the Rothschild-Epstein Ukraine email extensively as direct evidence that Western-backed regime change opened doors for predatory finance that deepened divisions and fed the 2022 escalation.
Yet inside the United States — the country where the Nuland call was recorded, where John Kerry ran State, where William J. Burns served, where Epstein’s meetings occurred, and where the files were released — zero equivalent accountability has followed. The financier who built the network, the officials who enabled it, and the domestic power centers that benefited remain untouched.
The timeline, the emails, the contracts, the meetings, the Aidan channels, the Kerry ties, the Clinton Foundation overlaps, and the Rothschild profit machine prove the connections beyond any shadow of a doubt. Epstein’s influence inside the Obama State Department, Rothschild network, and Clinton orbit did not just coincide with the Ukraine upheaval — it helped shape the conditions and then profited from the precise outcome Nuland and her superiors engineered. A who’s-who consortium of global elites is paying the price abroad. In the United States, the full weight of that evidence has yet to produce equivalent consequences.
