The FT just bigged up warlord Erik Prince without blinking an eye

The Financial Times just ran a puff piece for a war profiteer – Erik Prince.

Erik Prince

Mainstream journalism is a puddle of shit – and just when you think it can get any worse, they go ahead and run a profile of a former CIA contractor, current mercenary/warlord – like an advert for him without any pushback, boasting about lunching in a posh restaurant and drinking wine.

Erik Prince built Blackwater, the mercenary firm that made a fortune off the Iraq War. He is directly responsible for the actions of his contractors, who became infamous for killing 17 Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007. Four of his men were convicted – then pardoned by Donald Trump in 2020.

Blackwater is now called Constellis Holdings.

Blackwater founder and mercenary-in-chief Erik Prince talks about Iran, facing public anger and the role that private contractors will play in the future of war – over Lunch with the FT https://t.co/UUPJ1y41Il pic.twitter.com/B4FeZVzTST

— Financial Times (@FT) June 27, 2026

The former Navy SEAL and Trump loyalist, in the piece, calls himself “an unapologetic lover of Western civilisation” – then gloats about taking “a cut of the proceeds” from resource extraction in Haiti and the DRC, as if that were its highest tenet.

“Taking out Maduro was a brilliant, brilliant operation,” Prince says, another casual colonial remark – and the article is full of them.

The FT notes Prince now also operates through Vector Global and has “armed men on the ground” in both countries, a fact Prince frames as “a solution for failing governments,” without a single question about the bodies left behind.

Nor does it mention the Israeli military advisers operating alongside his men in the DRC, training two Congolese special forces battalions.

He speaks approvingly of Ukraine with Ukrainian drones, like other brain-addled Atlanticists like Mark Rutte, Al Carns, Jon Healey and, of course, our soon-to-be ex-PM Starmer.

DRC

Erik Prince says he is helping the DRC government fight 50 different mineral-smuggling gangs, the worst of which is M23.

 Like Prince, Israeli military advisers were also linked to training Congolese forces against M23 – The Canary recently documented this grubby trail, connecting Epstein’s network to DRC destabilisation via leaked emails from the account of ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

Epstein’s grubby DRC links expose how the Western world destabilises mineral-rich Global South regions — writing off indigenous communities as disposable.https://t.co/SJqxRkMkrz

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) June 26, 2026

Haiti

Erik Prince says the Haitian government hired him to tackle gangs. He admits his work meets “the definition of mercenary, no question.” He claims his men have reclaimed around half of Port-au-Prince and that his business model is “the privatisation of government.”

Dr Tamanisha J. John, a politics professor, has hit back at this framing of Blackwater’s role in Haiti. She notes that Haiti’s unelected leader – installed by the West – brought in Blackwater. She said:

We already know the dangers that these mercenaries will bring to Haiti and against Haitian people

FYI: Haiti didn’t “hire” Blackwater, Haiti’s unelected leader put into power by the West did. We already know the dangers that these mercenaries will bring to Haiti and against Haitian people — who are still discriminated against globally when fleeing this created violence. https://t.co/tAjyzketqQ

— Tamanisha J John (@TamanishaJohn) May 28, 2025

Gaza and Erik Prince

Erik Prince claims he pitched a plan for a Texan oil-fracking crew to drill horizontally into Hamas’s tunnels and flood them with water. The IDF denies he was ever involved.

Again, this is an extraordinary pitch – amounting to a war crime – boasted to the FT – and the FT editor had nothing to say.

US deportation plans

Erik Prince offered to help Trump deport migrants, proposing a $25m logistics plan to find, detain and process “illegals.” He says “it’s just maths” and stands by the numbers. The plan was leaked and caused a furore.

Propaganda for Erik Prince

This is the colonial mindset in its purest form.

The FT does not interrogate Erik Prince’s boasts or challenge his mercenary admissions.

Instead, it humanises him by telling us what he ordered for lunch – chilled gazpacho, rib-eye steak, no dessert, a glass of wine – as if he were a visiting dignitary rather than a man whose contractors massacred 17 Iraqis and who now boasts of extracting resources from DRC and Haiti, among other crimes.

Shameful.