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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ben Makuch

Blackwater founder and Maga disciple Erik Prince pitching services in Ukraine

a man walks on a street as journalists point their cameras at him
Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, at a press conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city, in April. Photograph: Gerardo Menoscal/AFP via Getty Images

Amid reports that Donald Trump’s administration is considering using US private military contractors in a postwar Ukraine, multiple sources tell the Guardian one high-profile and controversial American from the “war on terror” era is already circling for business.

In the streets of Kyiv, military hawks and defense privateers have described how Erik Prince, Maga disciple and founder of the now-defunct mercenary company Blackwater, has been aggressively pitching his services and looking to buy.

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