So: if you read the New Right outlets like IM-1776, one thing they've been demanding is the ability for PMCs/paramiliaries to be deployed for foreign policy ends - ThreadSky

sharonk.bsky.social • 26 days ago

So: if you read the New Right outlets like IM-1776, one thing they've been demanding is the ability for PMCs/paramiliaries to be deployed for foreign policy ends

Reposted from Alexander Clarkson

It is more likely that this batshit insanity will be contained in some way, but the issues around US-Mexico relations are where the risks are highest that an impulsive Trump brainwave could be seized on by the wider American Right and turned into dangerous reality

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tiredgenerally.bsky.social•26 days ago

stupid cyberpunk indeed

tiredgenerally.bsky.social•26 days ago

excited for companies to compete for government sponsored war contracts

strategicchancla.bsky.social•26 days ago

Even more of my favorite genre of cautionary tales

insipidtwaddle.bsky.social•26 days ago

America's Dumbest Army-Surplus Chuds vs. The Freaking Mexican Cartels feels like the worst episode of that Deadliest Warrior show.

onedayinjune.bsky.social•26 days ago

I'm sad we never got a Mexican cartels vs ISIS episode, but this will do (Go cartels!)

doomscroll.bsky.social•26 days ago

If that happens, at least a lot of awful people would die

unmitigatedgaul1.bsky.social•26 days ago

I for one would pay to watch.

drinky-crow.bsky.social•26 days ago

Not even just the cartels. These idiots will be fair game to the Mexican army, which will know where they are every minute theyre over the border. It's literal suicide.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•26 days ago

I thought Trump voters wanted less war, this is quite a flex.

s3rp86.bsky.social•26 days ago

They don't think this would really be a war because they are stupid.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•26 days ago

The cartels in Mexico are no joke. Bush knew it.

drinky-crow.bsky.social•26 days ago

Please please please please

It'll be soooon funny

osakakanagawa50.bsky.social•26 days ago

So, they want the American version of Russia's Wagner Group.

megaweapon5.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yes, since they want America to be Russia.

kidyossarian.bsky.social•26 days ago

They are fine with a decrease in wealth as long as the wealth disparity and relative power increase.

hodag1977.bsky.social•26 days ago

Of course Based Mike Lee would come up with this cockamamie idea🙄

cthomasjamh.bsky.social•26 days ago

I mean worked for the Congo right? RIGHT!?

sharonk.bsky.social•26 days ago

they specifically want contracts for the Sahel lol

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•26 days ago

I'm advocating we call the Wagner/Amero-Wagner mixed formations "The Kasham Brigades"

sharonk.bsky.social•26 days ago

erik prince that is along with the other DoD guy

s3rp86.bsky.social•26 days ago

If it wasn't going to get a whole lot of civilians also get killed i'd be ok with it because they are absolutely just getting murked over there.

sharonk.bsky.social•26 days ago

part of me suspects this is their way of getting government backed support for Trumpist paramilitaries

waluigiyaoi.bsky.social•26 days ago

Very funny he’s bringing up letters of marque because these always had specific state actors as targets. I’m not sure how you can make one that just has a vague concept. Like maybe individual cartels and then expanding it to their business partners but what about their rivals lmao

cathodecorpse.bsky.social•26 days ago

soldier of fortune come full circle

someguyhere1.bsky.social•26 days ago

Erik Prince Prighozin Mutiny speed run any% difficulty.

highestmarx.bsky.social•26 days ago

Seriously lol

highestmarx.bsky.social•26 days ago

It would happen no later than three days into the Special Military Operation in Sonora.

ernesto.bsky.social•26 days ago

erik prince please kys already

lastnpcalex.com•26 days ago

letters of marque are a tried and true Paul policy position, and it's distressing it could go even that mainstream

merchantofvice.bsky.social•26 days ago

IMO Sending pmc’s into highly trained and militarized drug cartels is a good way to deplete our reserve of sovereign citizen yahoo’s

justice-goddess.bsky.social•26 days ago

But the inevitable death of unprepared, vulnerable and untrained asshats will be used to justify further expansion and security measures. It doesn’t end well for our civil rights

pogtastic.bsky.social•26 days ago

There's this big bald guy taking recruits for his filibuster group should I join up? He said he was a judge or something

chrissick.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ask him what the trick of the world is. Then run

johnmone.bsky.social•26 days ago

At some point the blow back will result in making the parasitic cartels become martyrs because of the violation of Mexican sovereignty. Mike Lee and the rest of the weird repressed Boy’s State crowd of lawmakers are gonna walk us into hellfire.

oldhobbit.bsky.social•26 days ago

They deployed actual armies over the last two decades and that still didn't work out, so not sure what PMCs will achieve. Other than dying when outnumbered by angry people.

kabulykos.bsky.social•26 days ago

Yaaas that worked so well in Iraq

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