Epstein Secrets

f the private military companies whose rise is the subject of his recent book, The Modern Mercenary. Companies like DynCorp — and, more infamously, Blackwater—were major players in the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing logistics and other services, as well as armed guards and trai

give private actors the option to wage wars where governments can't, or won't. In 2008, for example, actress and activist Mia Farrow explored hiring Blackwater to intervene in Darfur, telling ABC News at the time, "Blackwater has a much better idea of what an effective peace-keeping mission would look like

ublicans and "big government" Democrats can agree on is offering essentially unconditional support to the military and the national security state. The Republican Party — its various factions increasingly at each other's throats almost as often as at those of the Democrats — seems reasonably united solely on issues

American servicemen convicted or accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq.i288,1 In November and December 2020, Trump pardoned four Blackwater erivate security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massac ;[2891 white-collar criminals Michael Milken and

ce, Trump's reelection committee reported raising $67.5 million and began 2019 with $19.3 million in cash i@l4. By July 2020, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party had raised $1.1 billion and spent $800 million, losing their cash advantage over Democratic nominee Joe Biden.E41 The cash shortage forced the campa

prove there were other options beyond more troops or humiliating defeat—and logically there probably weren’t more options—Bannon became a sponsor of Blackwater-founder Erik Prince’s obviously self-serving idea to replace the U.S. military force with private contractors and CIA and Special Operations personne

eserved for those who could best serve him. There wasn’t all that much competition for this role before he ran for president, but in early 2016, with the Republican Party collapsing and Trump rising, his sons faced a new professional and family situation. Their brother-In-law had been slowly drawn into the campaign, p