Blackwater founder calls on US to colonize Africa, Latin America
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During his podcast "Off Leash" on Tuesday, Prince gave listeners his "professional opinion" that many nations around the world just did not have the capacity to govern themselves.
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Erik Prince speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD. (AP)
According to a commentary from The Intercept by John Schwarz, former Nany Seal and founder of mercenary firm Blackwater Erik Prince has called on the United States to "put the imperial hat back on" and control massive parts of the globe again.
Erik Prince is a former US Navy SEAL who was behind the revival of the private security industry.
He also calls himself "Kingfish".
Notoriously known for Blackwater and his involvement in the Iraq War, he established another private military company called Reflex Responses – or R2 – after he sold Blackwater to investors as an escape from controversy. The UAE secretly hired both companies, Blackwater and R2, to go to Yemen.
Blackwater, which has massacred scores of Iraqis and is despised in Iraq more than the US soldiers themselves, has taken pride in employing Colombians and other Latin American military personnel, from soldiers to commanders.
During his podcast "Off Leash" on Tuesday, Prince gave listeners his "professional opinion" that many nations around the world just did not have the capacity to govern themselves and that the US should just swoop in and govern those countries instead "cause enough is enough, we’re done being invaded."
"You can say that about pretty much all of Africa, they’re incapable of governing themselves."
The irony is almost too much to handle, as the US currently has hundreds of military bases around the world.
His co-host Mark Serrano voiced concern on-air that listeners, particularly people on the left, would say "Erik Prince is talking about being a colonialist again.”
Rather than clarify his statements, Prince responded, “Absolutely, yes," adding that not only almost the entirety of Africa was incapable of governing itself, but so was Latin America.
Prince expressed that his burning desire to govern these countries was because many of the people there "deserve a lot better," explaining how most just had horrible "corrupt governments that are just criminal syndicates."
Schwarz explains that "imperialists have always told themselves that they are subduing other lands to help their benighted inhabitants. This beneficence somehow always leads to mass death."
He recalls how numerous comments made in the US over the years in regard to the war on Iraq attempted to mask the invasion of Iraq as a struggle between "good" and "evil", with the Americans portraying themselves as intending to deliver freedom to Iraqis.
Schwarz explains that Prince's comments indicate that many of humanity's worst ideas are resurfacing.
In the podcast, Prince refers to what he calls "the BLM and the Hamas militias of the Democrat Party, very active in the United States this summer," explaining that "when that BLM or Hamas militia shows up to start wrecking things, you show them what law and order looks like, immediately."
