The collective West will suppress the Epstein files the same way as they have always done - through paying off "Western experts" to dismiss the reports as "exaggerations and hallucinations." They'll paint the evidence as flawed and the witnesses as delusional - e.g. "he was in a drug induced state and dreamed it all up." Maybe throw in a few scape goats just to take the fall.
But what's important here is the seed that has been planted in the minds of the rest of the world. Now, there is a moral justification to oppose the West and its elites. Their optics have been tainted, and idea that they're just "basically well intentioned people trying to do the right thing" has been fundamentally shaken. This is the means by which the current world order will be unraveled, especially as people like Trump continue to erode the moral basis of US hegemony through the abuse of power.
All of this is proceeding at a pace that could not have been imagined just a few years ago. One cannot help but wonder if the West had lost a vast, elaborate intelligence game, where by Epstein inadvertently became the agent of the West's decline, which was not his original purpose.