yeah, i saw that some time back for the first time in relation to this whole thing. russia wasn't mentioned in it when i first saw it. i think it's more of a reference to cold war and the 50s, when the word "automat" was what we now call a vending machine. also, kompromat is kinda also german. in the balkans especially yugoslavia german is the second language.

epstein was the kompromat pimp. are they gonna say that he's a russian asset now, in light of the fact that he clearly was working for the CIA?