THE RISING TIDE OF MERCENARIES: “Private military contractors are considered cheap — you don’t have to pay for their training, employ them year-round, or pay veterans’ benefits, and in most cases, they come with their own weapons.”
pri.org/stories/2020-0… @PRI_News June 23, 2020
pri.org/stories/2020-0… @PRI_News June 23, 2020
“Today, these mercenaries could be changing war in ways that the US might not be prepared for.”-@PRI_News @seanmcfate
“War is getting sneakier. We live in a global information age where weapons that give you plausible deniability are more powerful than firepower. And very few things offer better plausible deniability than mercenaries.”-@PRI_News
“This rising tide of mercenaries — eventually, in a decade or two, we'll get to a point where war is privatized, where anybody who can swipe a big enough check can become a superpower.”-@seanmcfate @PRI_News
“Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has been pushing Washington to privatize the entire war in Afghanistan..contractor deaths are not listed, rarely mentioned by media..aren’t subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, so hiding information from journalists is easier.”
Slippery slope to fascism.
https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1284502125653843974
Fits a pattern.
https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1268407597456961536
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