Erik Prince charging $6.5K per seat to evacuate Afghans [View all]

[Tanuki]

He is reportedly a multi-billionaire and could easily afford to cover the cost, but he is a mercenary above all else.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tbsnews.net/world/us-defense-contractor-erik-prince-charges-6500-person-seat-plane-out-kabul-292960%3famp

"US defense contractor Erik Prince said he is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500 per person.

US and NATO forces are sending special rescue teams into Taliban-controlled areas of the city to spirit their citizens into the airport, reports the Wall Street Journal. 
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Chartered planes are flying out of Kabul with hundreds of empty seats. New Taliban checkpoints on the road to Pakistan have made driving out of the country increasingly risky."....(more)

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(Prince famously tried to sell Trump on allowing him to privatize military operations in Afghanistan)

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/09/05/heres-the-blueprint-for-erik-princes-5-billion-plan-to-privatize-the-afghanistan-war/

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Blackwater founder Erik Prince thinks the time is right to try a new approach in Afghanistan, one that he says will reduce war spending to a sliver of its current levels, get most troops home and eliminate Pakistan’s influence on U.S. policy there: Let him run it.

In an exclusive interview with Military Times, Prince shared new details about his proposed force and why he believes a small footprint of private military contractors and even smaller footprint of U.S. special operators may be able to accomplish what hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and NATO forces over the last 17 years could not.

Prince first presented the idea as President Donald Trump took office last year, hoping that the president’s long-stated opposition to keeping U.S. forces in Afghanistan would open the door to a privatized presence.

But Trump listened to his national security team instead, including critics of the plan like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster."...(more)