Betsy DeVoss Brother, The Founder Of Blackwater, Is Setting Up A Private Army For China, SourcesSa

[IdiotsforPalin]

Source: BuzzFeed

Erik Prince — founder of the private military company Blackwater, financial backer of President Donald Trump, brother to the new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and frequent Breitbart radio guest of White House power broker Stephen Bannon — has been offering his military expertise to support Chinese government objectives and setting up two Blackwater-style training camps in China, according to sources and his own company statements.
The move could put him at odds with Trump, who has often taken a hard line against China, and could also risk violating US law, which prohibits the export of military services or equipment to China.

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[blm]

1. Privatizing military for corporate empires - full on muscular fascism. China hasn't been 'communist'

for over 2 decades. Chinese industrialists control the government there.

Same has been done here.

[red dog 1]

2. K&R

[Lucky Luciano]

3. I guess mercenaries gotta be mercenaries! nt

[OldRedneck]

4. Not impressed

The Buzzfeed article indicates Prince is trying to set up training camps in China to train former Chinese military personnel to be corporate security people, apparently to protect Chinese businessmen worldwide.

I'm 72, retired Army infantry officer, Airborne, Ranger, Special Forces. Read, write, speak Chinese -- was one of the first Army personnel in China after the US embassy opened there and have stayed in touch with Chinese military affairs since.

Prince is dreaming. The Chinese are masters at examining foreign equipment and organizations, then, reverse-engineering their own. They may pump him for info, pay him a few $$$, then drop him as soon as they have copied his techniques.

However, I doubt the Chinese need anything Prince has to sell. Their intelligence services are top notch and the security they proivde to Chinese government and corporate officials is quite good already.

Since Blackwater went down the tubes, Prince has been grasping at anything he can find to make a buck.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Selling them the secrets of how the US protects it's businessmen world-wide might be worth a lot...

Actually.

Sounds like fairly valuable information for if/when they need/want to take out some of our biz leaders ...

Someone might learn a tough first-hand lesson re: just what a bad idea it is to outsource our Nations security to multi-national, private corps (read: mercenaries) with no actual allegiance to the USA ...

[Hortensis]

10. Maybe that's it. I'm thinking, "Why?"

China isn't exactly low on manpower, or military power and sophistication, or no doubt on people willing to kill on order.

Then there's the usual, of course--a link to someone with access to 45, which alone might reward a little development.

[yuiyoshida]

5. The Trump administration seems to full with Traitors..

n/t.

[BainsBane]

6. Figures they're related.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Money above country. Erik Prince

[LittleBlue]

9. This has been known for a long time now

His "security firm" IIRC has been traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange for a while now. Basically it's a firm that trains de facto mercs for gulf states and China.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Why does a country of 1.3 billion people need a private army?