Evil Taking Sides: Erik Prince or Viktor Bout?

More on Prince pushing for private army in Afghanistan:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/20170804_ap_1333648611dd46b4868d591f4ed7c9ff.html

this guy sends me over the edge, i almost can't read about it anymore

Erik Prince on MSNBC, asked for precedent for his give-mercs-Afghanistan proposal: "East India Co, not that I'm advocating colonization..."

— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) August 8, 2017

NY Times gives Prince op-ed space.

GROSS

Disgusting.

doctor doom: doombots, not the fantastic four, will save latveria

for future reference here's how you promote your war profiteering in way that won't offend people. https://t.co/hjMWtYRUeW pic.twitter.com/j7hDRon0GJ

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 30, 2017

all war pigs are war pigs

NYTimes's super secret op-ed editorial process https://t.co/cV3RKq2FCs

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 30, 2017

oh cool, an editorial star chamber

Yes, the gravely serious and secretive editorial process that makes important decisions to publish things like Erik Prince's op-ed and a piece opining that Despacito is really important in Trump's America.

The fact that people like Erik Prince, Paul Manafort, others whose names I don't even know yet are scooching and elbowing their way into increasingly powerful positions is freaking me out
international misery exploiters
they are literally THE WORST

This Niger situation has to have Prince’s fingerprints all over it.

Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out'interrogations' on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5108651/American-mercenaries-torturing-Saudi-princes.html

This guy’s a contender:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nader_(businessman)

Betsy DeVos is a greed wraith
I am aware she and Erik Prince are part of the same greedy horrible family and yet she distinguishes herself from the war profiteering/misery-based capitalism by actually taking things away from people. She is truly disgusting.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/richard-devos-amway-multi-level-marketing-conservatism

i can't possibly read any more about this person or her family

Okay sorry you're right, it just makes me more infuriated. But so many people in my life want to "humanize" them or praise their philanthropy or get close to their power, I have a sort of compulsion to shout about them into the void.

i used to and then i realized how much it aggravated me, and that being aggravated to that degree (fairly extreme) was hurting me directly in ways that were harming me and i had to stop. in more peaceful times it seems tenable, but not right now. things are too awful!

no one in my life is trying to humanize/valorize them at all, so it's almost like self-abuse to roll around in their malevolence. for me, i mean.

Ugh -- this guy!
my god
i tried to read this and felt like i was drowning

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html

Yes although my first reax was:

Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.

Sooooo not a very good underground operative then? The Dem candidate won the "important" race AND discovered the mole and fired them? Cool cool. I wonder how much money Erik Prince made out of that? Probably a whole lot.

I have to hope that being a "former CIA officer" was helpful in that regard.

SCOOP: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine https://t.co/mQFxl3BFK3

— Simon Shuster (@shustry) July 7, 2021

"Erik Prince, the American defense contractor, said he is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500 per person." https://t.co/UwMoZqzgpG

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 25, 2021

Bout possibly getting sprung in exchange for the basketball player and some supposed spy.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3576618-blinken-to-discuss-proposal-to-free-paul-whelan-brittney-griner-with-russian-counterpart/

dang did not expect to see this asshead intersect with an embattled WNBA athlete

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - @ksvarnon - has been doing great work on explaining this situation:

http://inkstickmedia.com/why-brittney-griner-is-trapped-in-russia/

From espn:

Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, according to multiple reports.

The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and [Paul] Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar the matter told The Associated Press that the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.