The Institutional Domino Effect

As this week has demonstrated, the Western political chessboard has been overturned. What we are observing is no longer a simple accumulation of private vices, but a systemic institutional explosion. From 10 Downing Street, now weakened, to the corridors of the Quai d'Orsay, passing through the headquarters of Frankfurt finance, the shockwave ignored borders. This week's "press review" proves that the exposure of Epstein's networks acts like acid on elite credibility: it does not merely dissolve individual reputations; it attacks trust in the very governance of States.

The Security Mutation: Beyond the political crash, a darker reality imposes itself for the weeks to come: the affair has definitively mutated. It has left the crime section to settle at the heart of national security issues. The question is no longer just who participated in the parties, but who held the camera and who holds the archives today.

Between the visible panic of Western capitals and the strategic silence of Moscow or Beijing, the contrast is striking. While US courts seem to have closed the judicial chapter, the intelligence war is only just beginning. The massive compromise of decision-makers past and present has become a time bomb, and it is highly likely that the 3 million pages of January 30 are merely the opening salvo of a long war of influence.