Posted on 07/08/2021 6:25:23 PM PDT by elpadre
On the second night of his visit to Kyiv, Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda. A few of his Ukrainian associates had arranged to meet the American billionaire at the Vodka Grill that evening, Feb. 23, 2020. The choice of venue seemed unusual. The Vodka Grill, a since-defunct nightclub next to a KFC franchise in a rough part of town, rarely saw patrons as powerful as Prince.
As the party got seated inside a private karaoke room on the second floor, Igor Novikov, who was then a top adviser to Ukraine’s President, remembers feeling a little nervous. He had done some reading about Blackwater, the private military company Prince had founded in 1997, and he knew about the massacre its troops had perpetrated during the U.S. war in Iraq. Coming face to face that night with the world’s most prominent soldier of fortune, Novikov remembers thinking: “What does this guy want from us?”
It soon became clear that Prince wanted a lot from Ukraine. According to interviews with close associates and confidential documents detailing his ambitions, Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters. His full plan, dated June 2020 and obtained exclusively by TIME this spring, includes a “roadmap” for the creation of a “vertically integrated aviation defense consortium” that could bring $10 billion in revenues and (go to link for a long but interesting story from a lefty viewpoint)
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Not enough Private Armies there now ?
an Eric Prince army could/would be a nightmare for Russians in the Crimea.
You actually think a Prince Army would invade Crimea?
Erik Prince is a fine American patriot...
I notice Time doesn’t mention that the massacre came about because the sudden movements of a white Kia Sedan resembled the sort of approach suicide bombers in Iraq commonly used to try to commit massacres of civilians and military targets.
It turned out not to have a bomb on board but I’m not sure how quickly investigators were able to secure the scene and the vehicle, or if the investigators on scene were US, coalition, or locals with agendas and loyalties of their own.
I was thinking they would be effective neutralizing Russia’s constant attacks on Ukrainian forces on the border. Ukraine suffers casualties on the border every day/week.
The 2007 incident in Iraq that ended in 14 dead involved these guys...
https://twitter.com/FreeRaven23/
[whom Biden politicized in order to curry favor with Iran-backed militias]
Had Prince brought Hunter and the Big Guy into the deal it might have come to fruition.
Not one controlled by US proxies. We have no business in the Ukraine
“...We have no business in the Ukraine”
Blackwater is a private business doing business all over the world. If a nation state wants to hire them, why not??
Bttt
While Time is worried about who Erik Prince met with in Feb 2020, Fauci’s pals in lab coats were getting together with The Lancet to try to bury suspicions about the lab in Wuhan...
Peter Daszak - EcoHealth Alliance
5/30/2021, 3:57:18 AM · by RandFan · 10 replies
The Times ^ | May 30 | Larisa Brown, Diplomatic and Security Correspondent | Madeleine Spence
“Since the earliest days of the pandemic there were a small number of leading scientists who took it upon themselves to enforce this kind of orthodoxy,” said Jamie Metzl, adviser to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on human genome editing and senior fellow with the Atlantic Council think tank. “We were ostracised and called conspiracy theorists,” he added. Metzl said that a statement in The Lancet in February 2020, signed by 27 prominent scientists, was “a form of scientific thuggery”. It strongly condemned “conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin”. It was organised by Peter Daszak,...
Yes
The FBI didn’t go out there for a week. The bodies of the Iraqis could not be autopsied, obviously.
Obviously the “crime scene” was completely tainted.
Lots of things wrong that day and the days following were even worse.
Blackwater does not exist anymore.
If they would quit attacking separatist areas it would be over. A coup does not automatically inherit everything the old government possessed. The reason? Everyone else has the same right as the coup leaders to grab what they can by force.
Time has to be written by imbeciles with a junior college degree. Just the excerpt has so many inaccuracies and falsehood.
Stop repeating BS Ruskie propaganda. There was no coup, Yanukovich was voted out of office by the Ukrainian parliament.
"Ukrainian president leaves Kiev as parliament votes to remove him from power"
https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/22/5436360/ukrainian-opposition-calls-for-faster-elections-as-president-leaves-kiev
TIME was thoroughly uninterested in Biden’s shakedown of the Ukraine. The corruption between Biden and other US officials pouring US tax dollars into the Ukraine was A-Okay with Time, so I’m not so interested what TIME is worried about now...
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