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Erik Prince has been many things in his 54 years on Earth: the wealthy heir to an auto supply company; a Navy SEAL; the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater, which conducted a notorious 2007 massacre in the middle of Baghdad; the brother of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s secretary of education; a shadow adviser to Trump; and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against The Intercept.

Last November, Prince started a podcast called “Off LeashOpens in a new tab,” which in its promotional copy says he “brings a unique and invaluable perspective to today’s increasingly volatile world.” On an episode last Tuesday, his unique and invaluable perspective turned out to be that the U.S. should “put the imperial hat back on” and take over and directly run huge swaths of the globe.

read more: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/10/erik-prince-off-leash-imperialism-colonialism/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We already did Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Now we are gonna nuke Mexico because CARTELs or whatever.