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Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force
This is a really good detailed article on how Erik Prince lied to and used foreign companies to try to build himself a private airforce /mercenary army.
Shades of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
or, as one commentator remarked...."His moves are those of a psychopath on a power trip.
Using economic terrorism to cow his opponents and now wanting an air force..
Next he'll have a glass eye and a hairless cat in his arms screaming incoherently."
The story of how Prince secretly plotted to transform the two aircraft for his arsenal of mercenary services is based on interviews with nearly a dozen people who have worked with Prince over the years, including current and former business partners, as well as internal documents, memos, and emails. Over a two-year period, Prince exploited front companies and cutouts, hidden corporate ownership, a meeting with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bouts weapons supplier, and at least one civil war in an effort to manufacture and ultimately sell his customized armed counterinsurgency aircraft. If he succeeded, Prince would possess two prototypes that would lay the foundation for a low-cost, high-powered air force capable of generating healthy profits while fulfilling his dream of privatized warfare.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/11/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-drive-to-build-private-air-force/
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Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Apr 2016
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He's a hideous person. What a shame he has power. It's surely in the wrong bloody hands.
Judi Lynn
Apr 2016
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Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)1. He's a hideous person. What a shame he has power. It's surely in the wrong bloody hands.
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Volaris
(10,272 posts)2. I just don't even have the words.
As in, there doesn't exist in the English language a singular profanity expansive enough to describe how i feel about Mr. Prince and his ilk.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. A wannabe Warlord, nt