In other news, plus mention of a new (to me at least) book.
> Wagner vs Africa Corps: The future of Russian paramilitaries in Mali https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/wagner-vs-africa-corps-the-future-of-russian-paramilitaries-in-mali
#Africa #Mali #mercenaries #warfare #Russian #books #reading #WagnerGroup
21 #Russian #mercenaries taken out in #Mali.
What do #VanceBoelter and #ErikPrince have in common? Quite a bit! But Prince prefers to farm out #Assassinations to his minions!
#Theocratic #Mercenary Erik Prince and the #ChristianRight
by Mike Kuhlenbeck • 19 June 2018
"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: #Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.
"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.
"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the #ConservativeChristian movement. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Richard Nixon’s disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. The Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports “a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and #JudeoChristian values under the Constitution.”
"From Reverend #BillyGraham’s “spiritual counsel” to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell’s #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and ’80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson’s #ChristianCoalition (now the #ChristianCoalitionOfAmerica), the movement to push a #fundamentalist “Judeo-Christian” agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, Erik Prince’s sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. Betsy DeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a “family of extremists” by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House."
#ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism #Mercenaries #PrivateSecurity #MAGA #MAGADeathCult #RightWing #ViolentExtremists
#DrVanceBoelter #VanceBoelter #Fascism #PrivateMilitary #Mercenaries #Fascism #Nestle #LateStageCapitalism #Minnesota #MinnesotaAssassin
I wonder what things in Gaza and North Africa he saw and did....
...he's basically a mercenary for the Dollar and American interests around the world, and his latest job is murdering Opposition politicians back in the ol' US of A!
#DrVanceBoelter #MinnesotaAssassin #VanceBoelter #Gaza #NorthAfrica #Security #PrivateMilitary #Mercenaries #USPOL #Terrorism #Fascism
FWIW this thread will make sense if you stop normalizing the very #GOP practice ―started under George Bush I, for the first Persian Gulf War― of privatizing the US military through #military #contractors #mercenaries
once you look at #ICE as a privatized mob of enforcers, then you will see how Trump and #Republicans are using #DHS to shred not just the Constitution, but the 3rd 4th and 5th amendments before they come for the ammosexual #2A
can’t have armed citizens against a dictatorship
LET ME REPEAT
there is no evidence the people concealing their identities while working for #ICE #DHS under Trump’s orders are #USGOV federal workers. if they are #contractors, they are #mercenaries and, as such, AN INVADING ARMY.
the 2nd amendment #2A of the USA Constitution was written to handle invading armies.
TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT #ICE
https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114603429873754062
1. where is the evidence these kidnappers took an oath to protect the constitution as federal employees?
2. if they are not #DHS employees, who do they work for? if they are “contractors”, are they #military #contractors, aka #mercenaries?
if the #kidnappers working for #ICE are mercenaries, THEY ARE AN INVADING ARMY.
USA citizens and localities have a CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT to shoot to kill invading armies
#Haiti hired other US contractors, besides #ErikPrince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones to kill gang members. Prince’s team has been operating drones since March, but has yet to announce a death or capture of a single high-value target.
#Security experts said Prince has also been scouting Haitian #American #military #veterans to hire & send to Port-au-Prince & expects to send up to 150 #mercenaries this summer. He recently shipped a large cache of #weapons there.
Oh yeah?
#Gaza
#mercenaries #US
@palestine
From min 38.19: American mercenaries in Gaza
-Who they are
-What they are doing
-The money trail, as in who makes money and how
-The US govt relationship with them
-Deliver aid or collecting intelligence
-Will they do "wet work", i.e. killing Palestinians?
All this and more and it's mostly unpleasant stuff ... enjoy
#Gaza
#mercenaries #US
@palestine
American mercenaries in Gaza:
-Who they are
-What they are doing
-The money trail, as in who makes money and how
-The US govt relationship with them
-Deliver aid or collecting intelligence
-Will they do "wet work", i.e. killing Palestinians?
All this and more and it's mostly unpleasant stuff ... enjoy
Ominous:🚨“Scores of foreign #mercenaries have landed in IL for the launch of a controversial US-backed aid plan for #Gaza that could force the UN out of managing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
A person familiar with GHF’s operations: a single nation had committed to at least $100M -has yet to come forward."
-L Rozen
#Netanyahu, #Trump..: barbaric.
Palestinians in Gaza are on the verge of starvation-only 5 aid trucks have entered as of Tues night.
#USPol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gaza-desperately-needs-aid-how-many-trucks-has-israel-let-in/ar-AA1FdcBx?ocid=BingNewsSerp
the question everybody should be asking about Trump’s latest human trafficking of migrants should be, WHY TO SOUTH SUDAN?
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114543200547046651
is it because of Erik Prince and this mercenary business deals with the So. Sudan corruptocrats running the show?
“The return of Erik Prince: How a notorious military contractor maneuvered his way back inside Trump’s orbit | CNN Politics - https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/erik-prince-return-maneuvered-inside-trump-orbit
Found something about the #American #mercenaries #Israel is using in #Gaza. #USPol #auspol
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/19/748242/craig-mokhiber-u-s--mercenaries-gaza
At 6:45 this morning my better half woke up & asked me what’s happening in the world.
I said, “The #coalition are still arguing, they’ll probably split; #Trump reckons he’s convinced #Putin to agree to a ceasefire, but Trump talks shit; #Israel is said to be paying #American #mercenaries to fight in #Gaza; the interest rate is supposed to go down today. That’s pretty much it.”
I think I nailed it #auspol - although I’m not hearing much about the Gaza mercenaries…
#Australian #OscarJenkins sentenced to 13 years in jail by #Russia for fighting alongside #Ukrainian forces.
Russia and its eastern Ukrainian proxies consider foreigners who have travelled to fight in Ukraine to be #mercenaries, which enables them to be prosecuted under Russia's criminal code rather than having to be treated as #prisonersofwar — which would entitle them to rights under the #GenevaConvention. #auspol #RussianInvasion
Mercenaries from nearly 50 countries fighting for Russia in Ukraine, reports say
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/mercenaries-from-nearly-50-countries-fighting-1745417382.html
#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Mercenaries #army #update #Frontline #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни
@cdt
"#Mercenaries"? You mean they weren't sent there by their #dictator? 🤷🏽♂️
