What Are Your Thoughts on The Blackwater Massacre and Military Contractors?

[Gabe]

I just recently watched Shawn Ryan’s podcast, specifically the episode where he had the four men who were pardoned in the Blackwater massacre that took pace back in 2007 in Baghdad. For reference, in September of 2007, four men from the military contracting company formerly known as Blackwater, were sentenced for the murder of 17 innocent men, women, and children in an incident in downtown Baghdad where they opened fire on civilians who they claimed shot at them first. After no evidence was found to support their self defense theory, the four men were charged with murder. In 2020, Trump pardoned all four men of their crimes.

On the podcast the men seem to think that th were worry accused and did not act with any malicious intent. They also seem to want forgovensss for the trouble that the subsequent trials brought to them and their families. What are your thoughts on this touchy subject, do these men deserve the pardon that they received or should they have stayed in jail? Are military contractors even necessary at all from a U.S. governmental standpoint?

 

[Cole train]

All i know is that war room is likely about to contract this thread

 

[TribalDrumz]

Save the gorillas .org

 

[Jack V Savage]

It's bad.

 

[HereticBD]

 

[Blayt7hh]

I was wondering why those war criminals were pardoned. Then I saw this..

Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince, whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was appointed Trump’s education secretary.

 

[Protectandserve]

Not a fan to say the least.

 

[lsa]

I never think about them to be honest.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

PMCs are the future for sure. Probably a place to funnell as much migrants as possible, since most are worthless except cannon fodder. You'll have Congolese fighting Somalis somewhere in the Pacific.

 

[Osculater]

PMCs are the future for sure. Probably a place to funnell as much migrants as possible, since most are worthless except cannon fodder. You'll have Congolese fighting Somalis somewhere in the Pacific.

 

[lsa]

Congolese are people from Congo,
and somalies are like wine experts, who works in restaurants

 

[Fox by the Sea]

yes, PMC employing congolese fighting another pmc employing somalis, fighting each other over some pacific island because their european or american employers have a shouting match with the chinese, for example. what's difficult about it?

 

[Osculater]

Congolese are people from Congo,
and somalies are like wine experts, who works in restaurants

Where are the restaurants in the Philippians?

 

[Fluffernutter]

First, they are a great way to manipulate numbers. Send 10,000 troops to the capital of Awesomestan. Once the US public gets weary of this action, remove 8,000 troops. But, replace them with 12,000 defense contracts from Academi. The US taxpayer is still fitting the bill. But, to the American public, it looks like we have a smaller footprint in the country since we have been told that we removed 8,000 US troops.

Second, if one of these employees of Academy gets killed in the capital of Awesomestan, the US media can create wall to wall coverage of "American killed in the streets of Awesomestan". This will give the DOD cover to send in an additional 15,000 US troops into the country. Now, we have even more, paid for by the US taxpayer, than we had at the start of this conflict.

Third, these companies are a great retirement plan for many in the US military.

 

[Natural Order]

Metal Gear Solid was a documentary!

 

[AWilder]

PMCs are the future for sure. Probably a place to funnell as much migrants as possible, since most are worthless except cannon fodder. You'll have Congolese fighting Somalis somewhere in the Pacific.

someone plays way too much metal gear

 

[Cole train]

someone plays way too much metal gear

Hes half correct

What is about to happen is foreign legion type stuff becoming common where foreigners serve in exchange for something like citizenship.Many euro countries are already thinking about this because locals dont want to serve and manpower is needed.

PMCs are private businesses so theres expectation of making profit which means there has to be some level of standard with employees which means company has to pay and thats too expensive

Easier to set up foreign legion, pay shit since people are willing to endure to get citizenship (already being done in france where FFL pays 1200 euros a month and you have to serve 7 years to get citizenshup), set low standards so lots of people join up and send them forth for countries interest

Just my 2 cents lol

 

[Hdfi]

They are all mercenary psychos and a red flag for imperial decline.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Shawn Ryan isn’t about to defame a service member of any rank and file. Take his interview with a grain of salt the Erik Prince interview.

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Same thing happened in the Roman Empire near the end.