The U.S. is deploying a major buildup of air and sea power in the Middle East, assembling the infrastructure for sustained warfare, not merely preparing for symbolic military strikes. There is now the largest force assembled off the coast of Iran since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. While the U.S. continues to participate in nuclear treaty talks with Iran, President Trump indicated that U.S. forces could rely on allied bases, particularly the U.K.’s Diego Garcia, as key strategic infrastructure if military action becomes necessary. The U.S. continues to make demands that Iran have no nuclear weapons or long-range missiles. This is nonsensical. Given that the nuclear weapons claims make no sense, do the online theories explain this warlust any better? Could this war with Iran really be based on the widespread speculation that both Israel and Iran have political kompromat on President Trump? Online speculation is that if President Trump fails to launch a war on Iran, Israel will release compromising intelligence about President Trump from his associations with Jeffrey Epstein. The speculation also says that if President Trump does launch a war on Iran, Iran will also release this intelligence because apparently, they have it too. The Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei indicated on X that Iran has this intelligence. President Trump is mentioned several times in the Epstein files but always by someone claiming to have been his victim. Did the government follow those leads? Is there more to see? We don’t know yet, but it is entirely possible that a foreign government knows. DropSite news reports that Israel installed and maintained security cameras inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment from 2016 on. Of course Epstein and the President weren’t friends in 2016, according to the official story. But does the presence of these cameras suggest that foreign intelligence has far more materials from the Epstein saga than the U.S. government does. Does that prove geopolitical blackmail is driving war decisions? No. But in an era of incomplete disclosures and eroded institutional trust, the fact that such theories gain traction tells its own story. The post The Epstein War appeared first on Redacted.