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The mercenaries and their foreign enablers are back or heading back to the UAE. After two public failures is it time for Plan C? Or has MBS realized this is a job for states not tinpot dictators and hired guns to resolve? foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/21/lib…
MBS is the paymaster. MBZ is his brain, is how it is described. They both need a wall of dictatorships to preserve their archaic rule. Their idea of controlling ports and governments is admirable (with the Chinese doing the building and CITIC bankrolling) but very ambitious.
Mohammad Dahlan and Erik Prince seem to be their tools of choice. Dahlan sticks to back room deals and Serbia, Prince has his bucket o’ mercs with cool toys to play with. Pliant Atkins like Jordan, Sudan, Eritrea, Puntland and Egypt are their doormats.
Where this hits home is Jared being our defacto Secretary of State and winding Americans around failure, self dealing and moral turpitude. Yemen and Libya provide solid proof that this formula of #fuckery shall not stand. President Lysol will regret this dark path in a few weeks
I assume that Prince made his East India Company pitch to Jared with the guarantee that mercenaries allow denial and low political risk in dirty wars. Clearly Jared never studied history. Clarridge, Wilson, North and the fuckerists Prince admires caused seismic damage to America
Enjoy the story of Edwin P. Wilson a man who hired a friend of mine back in the day. He thought he was training Qaddafi's body guard for the CIA until the agency called to ask if they could get photos. He escaped. Wilson went to jail. nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/…
Meet Dewey. A man both worshipped and reviled. Someone who had no problem using artifice or deceit to achieve a goal. He loved disinformation but in the end he was ignored as a liability. Trivia: Khalifa Haftar was a creation of Dewey Clarridge. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/interv…
It is important to remember that under President Reagan rebels were invented and supercharged via back room deals and tin pot dictators in Nicaragua, Angola, Afghanistan and Libya. This swirling mess of fabricated #fuckery still create horrors today. nytimes.com/1986/04/23/wor…
Remember to put a little note on the fridge that Kushner's fumbling foray into running America's foreign policy via fuckerists, dirty money, mercenaries and tyrants is going to seriously bite Daddy in Law's reelection dreams in the ass. #OctoberSurprise. fortune.com/2017/03/27/jar…
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