Wagner is about to have their Erik Prince moment. How many gigs did Prince screw up: UAE, Puntland, Mog, Libya, South Sudan and now Moz. Wagner seems destined to duplicate that failed mercantile model of rented violence. themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/19/in-…
Prince has wisely shifted and tried to flip deals for 25%. Using cutouts in which he has 49% or side deals. In some cases he tries to triple dip. Now Putin and the Chef are out gunning Prince and of course taking the heat for failure. This will be interesting.
Mercury the PR company and GNA lobbyist has been sending high level US reporters to cover war crimes in Tripoli. The new hook is Bloomberg’s 1400 Russian mercenaries (a monkey number) in Libya. The real number is much smaller but the US is starting to engage due to PR pressure.
Stories about civilians being killed by Emirati supplied drones aren’t working. So Wagner paid #fuckery in Libya, Moz, CAR, DRC, Sudan etc like Blackwater in Iraq is in the crosshairs. Not that Prince isn’t screwing things up all on his own trying to compete for “most reviled”
Nisour Square didn’t have the impact of social media but Russian mercenaries seem to thrive on proving how war crimey they can be. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/1…
As does disgraced trustafarian Erik Prince who relentlessly and consistently promotes the normalization of war crimes and the savage murder of civilians as acceptable.
Just as Blackwater and Nospir Square had very public and very dire secondary and tertiary consequences for our foreign policy so will Wagner and their mercenaries in Africa and Arab nations. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…
By contrast, US Special Forces and EU FID missions to train local troops focus on quality of troop, surgical violence, legal restraints and imparting cultural views. There is a difference based on my first hand experience. recoilweb.com/cru-222-afghan…
There are excellent private military companies that hire retired trainers and operate openly, abiding by laws and permissions. This is not the business model of Erik Prince or Yevgeny Prizoghin. Nor are their UAE or Russian paymasters interested in legal or ethical norms.
The Mueller report notes that Prince was yelling at Kirill A. Dmitriev that Russia was off the table when Prince and fuckerist George Nader were in the Seychelles with the UAE #fuckery squad. This is why:
Dimitri thought Prince was an ass and was insulted according to the report. Prince would go on to cook his own illegal deal with the Crown Prince in Libya Just like he tried to field his cheapass merc army in Mozambique and was kicked to the curb by Putin. Payback is a bitch.
