[NoLinkToMe]

Hard to say. Netanyahu has been calling for Iranian regime change since the 90s, and Trump is his most successful lobbying effort yet. US wants regime change, they just never saw a possibility. So the objective isn't new or driven by Epstein, perhaps the timing is though.

Even now most experts agree the chance of success is extremely small, every time this was tried you got shit returns (think Libya, still a failed state after Ghadaffi fell, and Iraq is reasonably stable now but we're 2 decades in and +1m dead Iraqis).

So it's certainly a useful distraction for Trump. It's also certainly true Trump would want to pursue this objective (despite it being a stupid move to reach it) regardless of the Epstein files.

[somenameforme]

Libya wasn't even remotely close to a failed state under Ghadaffi. Under Ghadaffi they had the highest gdp/capita and life expectancy in all of Africa, the highest human development index, lowest infant mortality, and more. Ghadaffi was working to create a unified African bloc to make Africa itself something of a geopolitical power. He was even working towards creating the 'African Gold Dinar' which was to be a gold backed currency which could replace the dollar in international exchange.

And he went quite quickly from being called a "critical partner in the fight against terror" to being overthrown and summarily murdered by US backed extremists, leaving Libya in a complete state of turmoil and deterioration, and even seeing the rise of organized slavery. [1] 'Regime change' in a nutshell.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Libya#Slavery_in_th...

[hedayet]

so, Epstein has turned out to be the greatest asset for Netanyahu.