he also says that during Hurricane Katrina he was contacted by a CIA guy working for Bill Gates, who said that one of Melinda's relatives was stranded in some mansion in Louisiana somewhere and they needed Blackwater guys to go down there and deliver them a satellite phone and a generator
his basic takeaway is that the Pentagon is shit and incompetent, and that the State Dept is actively evil and his biggest enemy. he says the Pentagon is the reason why Afghanistan was shit and did nothing for 20 years after mercs effortlessly conquered it in the first year. and that the State Dept is the reason Iraq was a debacle because the Iraqis wanted to use Blackwater to stop Iran from supporting the insurgency but DoS wouldn't let them do it because "Iran is our ally"
here's the interview: https://youtu.be/nwK_XLFOm_I some of this stuff is amazing. he says Hillary Clinton gave them a $42m fine for breaking some bureaucratic rules around arms controls. DC initially relied on them for their wars, and then the second they got bad press, in the most Machiavellian way possible, DC double crossed them and tried to take them out in any way they could
he says almost nothing about Ukraine other than it's ridiculous that congress is pissing away hundreds of billions on supporting them when it could be using tens of billions to undermine China's monopoly on various raw materials processing
he wrote a plan for Trump to install a Viceroy of Afghanistan and then employ the Taliban digging copper deposits from the mines there based on the East India Company's model of how they ran India. the absolute *second* that guys like Prince get unleashed on the world, the "West" will be back in business
@mono it's a weird dynamic cause often they'll come in and pretend to be one of the common people and adopt styles and mores of the masses so they don't get overthrown, it's really like who is conquering who in this situation
augustus pugin ? (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jul-2022 17:59:27 JST
augustus pugin ?BAP mentioned how ruling castes are often ethnic and distinct from the peoplethey rule. I started trying to think of examples of this, but it does happen a lot. the Qing dynasty was ruled by minority Manchurians for centuries over the Han, Britain was ruled by small minority of Normans, in Ireland you developed an English aristocracy, Baltic countries had a German ruling class going back centuries. and in the US today we all know that the Mormons control the government