Posted on 01/24/2014 10:34:46 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
Erik Prince —ex-Navy SEAL, ex-CIA spy, ex-CEO of private-security firm Blackwater —calls himself an "accidental tourist" whose modest business boomed after 9/11, expanded into Iraq and Afghanistan, and then was "blowtorched by politics." To critics and conspiracy theorists, he is a mercenary war-profiteer. To admirers, he's a patriot who has repeatedly answered America's call with bravery and creativity.
Now, sitting in a boardroom above Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, he explains his newest title, acquired this month: chairman of Frontier Services Group, an Africa-focused security and logistics company with intimate ties to China's largest state-owned conglomerate, Citic Group. Beijing has titanic ambitions to tap Africa's resources—including $1 trillion in planned spending on roads, railways and airports by 2025—and Mr. Prince wants in.
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Yeah, because we all know when you control Africa the world is yours. Just ask Germany, France, Britain, the Dutch, Belgium, Italy, etc.
My former boss - great guy - met him several time while in Al Hillah, IQ...was BW Ops Chief there...real laid back - highly intelligence - no nonsense...politicians betrayed him - great patriot!
See my post 31. It’s the Dems who think China isn’t an enemy, not me.
They aren’t trying to colonize or control Africa. They’re going to suck it dry and abandon it. The Chinese view of Africans is easily the equivalent of ante-bellum USA i.e. barely more than animals (and that probably goes double for the less-”civilized” blacks in Africa. It won’t be colonization, it’ll be pest control. They’ll be more brutal than any of the colonial powers.
thanks for the truth bro
You need to reexamine your view of exactly who runs our country these days. I see Muslims, Communists and Socialists leading both Houses, DHS, DOJ, EPA, NEA, the SCOTUS and the WH.
I know what you are saying.
And more so, the society itself is so de-based.
Is it time to give up? To simply become mercenary? To join the Chinese tide despite itsneo-fascist national socialism?
It seems Prince decided this.
I myself have had similar thoughts.
But I don’t think even if I gave up on my country would I be able to so directly support the strengthening and expansion of the Chinese Communist military.
There’s two ways of looking at what he’s doing: He could be working for us gathering Intel as a tactical counter-insurgency operator or is he a traitor as you suggest? I see Muslim, Communist and Socialist sympathizers everywhere I look when I examine our government. It is a difficult call.
Attention to all the Pajama Boys in the Cathedral, this is what happens when you throw your highly trained warriors under the bus.
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