Silicon Valley has played a considerable role in the early days of Donald Trump’s new administration, but another familiar face of the Magazáverse is beginning to emerge.
Prince is the most famous mercenary of the modern era and is the founder of the now abolished private military company Blackwater. For a while, it was prolific private in the “war on terrorism” and won millions of us in US government contracts by providing lucky soldiers to the CIA, Pentagon and others.
Now he is the web-center of other contractors seeking to sell Trump advisors in a $25 billion deal to privatize the massive deportation of 12 million immigrants.
Appearing in News Nation, he immediately tried to ease the traction of his plans.
“There are no indications so far,” Prince said of the federal contract realisation. “In the end, if they hit those kinds of numbers and scales, they’ll need an additional private sector.”
But people were wondering about the news, how does Prince take into consideration the Second Trump presidency?
Sean McFate, a professor at Georgetown University who advised the Pentagon and CIA, said, “Eric Prince has always been politically connected to the Magazine movement, Magazine, and it goes back to 2015.”
Prince himself is a veteran of the Special Forces and a former Navy Seal, Prince is a known business associate for Steve Bannon, the architect of Trump’s first election victory. Prince appeared with him at a press conference last July, and then Bannon surrendered to authorities and began a brief prison sentence to rebel against Congressional subpoena.
“He comes from a wealthy Republican family,” McFate said. “His sister, Betsy DeVos, was a former education secretary, and he was a Maga, not a Maga, and he was a Republican Steve Bannon, a Maga Breitbart.
Among the two Bush administrations, Blackwater was the main receiver of pentagonal money flowing into the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the Baghdad massacre at the hands of several of his contractors led to prison sentences, parliamentary inquiries and a blacklist of the company.
A few years later, Trump will come to rescue: forgive all the Black Water Merchants involved in the massacre.
Now, with the current administration putting free ads on Elon Musk and other Magazine Loyalists, Prince has a newly familiar ally in Washington.
“This is a big market time for him,” McFate said. “When there are Democrats in the White House, he’s very quiet and it gets really loud when Republicans, especially Trump, are in the White House. I hope this will be one of the many things he’s trying to sell.”
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McPheate said Prince is nothing if not an “opportunist” and not an “egoist” who likes to enter the media cycle.
“If Trump or someone says, ‘That’s an interesting idea,’ he pumps out a PowerPoint slideshow suggesting whether or not you can do that,” he said. Prince also had the ears of Tarshi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and was a character witness for the Senate confirmation.
Prince is a relentless pitchman and will not deny that the World Government is offering a billion-dollar scheme to privatize wars and other cheap spying activities. For example, he was recently appointed to the advisory board of Vantage Intelligence, a private intelligence company based in London.
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After Blackwater and under the new company, he proposed missions in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Congo, Libya and Venezuela, where he is often said to be ripe for overthrowing on podcasts.
A former senior commander of the Venezuelan Alliance of Soldiers, who fled from the Chavista regime, said his organization is being protected by Prince asking for help against current president Nicolas Maduro.
“We sent a message to Eric Prince to see if we could meet,” said Javier Nieto Quintero, former Venezuelan military captain and leader of Venezuelan opposition organization Carive. “If he wishes, we can provide help and support from an information, information or other field perspective based on the freedom of our country.”
Nieto Quintero, who said Prince had not responded yet, said Carive was used in a failed surgery against Maduro in 2020, led by a former Green Beret. Famously known as the “Gulf of Piglets,” six Nieto Quintero men were killed and nearly 100 captured, including two former US military personnel hired for the job released from Caracas prison two years ago.
Prince’s eyes have definitely focused on Venezuela. Venezuela is a country with vast oil reserves that have long been on the cross of Trump’s servants. In recent months, Prince has supported a Venezuela opposition movement called Ya Casi Venezuela, claiming he raised more than $1 million over the summer. The Maduro administration is currently investigating links to the Prince’s campaign. The campaign is portrayed as a kind of front for Western governments to promote downfall.
Venezuela has reason to fear a link between the prince and an American spy. With a rich history of secret actions in Latin America, the CIA was at least aware of the conspiracy to overthrow Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, in 2002.
“We were in touch with Ya Casi Venezuela, but the meeting never took place,” Nieto Quintero said. “We have continued to grow and strengthen our ranks and our doctrines, planning, institutional, military, security and defense proposals.”
The Prince is officially active in the area. Last week, Ecuador announced that he would partner with Prince in a “Strategic Alliance” to strengthen the country’s controversial “war on crime” with his expertise.
Prince did not respond to requests for comment sent through an encrypted mobile phone company. Ya Casi Venezuela did not respond to many emails about her relationship with Prince. For now, business transactions between the Trump administration and the Prince have not been signed or made public.
But throughout his career as both a shadow contractor and a politician, he has clapped the latest Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) stages and then just spoke with Harvard Republicans, and Prince’s public and private sides remain somewhat opposed.
“He likes to be on the news and he becomes a very bad mercenary,” McFate said. “Frankly, most mercenaries I talk to in Africa, the big ones lightly splash him.”
