With the CIA's latest attempt to interfere in the political processes of another country failing badly in Venezuela, Uncle Sam is now considering "privatising" all future overseas coup attempts by putting them out to tender to the private sector.
The CIA, as part of the public sector, has become increasingly bloated, wasteful, and inefficient over the years, and has been unable to carry out a successful overthrow of a foreign government for several decades. (In fact, they even failed to overthrow a domestic one in the shape of Trump recently.)
The debacle in Venezuela, where the Maduro government easily shut down the coup fronted by US-puppet politician Juan Guaido on Tuesday (30th April), is believed to have been the last straw, pushing the US government to look to the private sector.
The debacle in Venezuela, where the Maduro government easily shut down the coup fronted by US-puppet politician Juan Guaido on Tuesday (30th April), is believed to have been the last straw, pushing the US government to look to the private sector.
Support had already been growing for the idea before the latest coup attempt, with Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, pushing the idea of deposing Maduro with a "private army," rather than relying on inefficient spooks on the government payroll.
As Reported by Reuters:
Over the last several months...Prince has sought investment and political support for such an operation from influential Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles. In private meetings in the United States and Europe, Prince sketched out a plan to field up to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s pitch.
One source said Prince has conducted meetings about the issue as recently as mid-April.
White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis declined to comment when asked whether Prince had proposed his plan to the government and whether it would be considered...
The two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s pitch said it calls for starting with intelligence operations and later deploying 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire from Colombia and other Latin American nations to conduct combat and stabilization operations.
For Prince, the unlikely gambit represents the latest effort in a long campaign to privatize warfare. The wealthy son of an auto-parts tycoon has fielded private security contractors in conflict zones from Central Asia to Africa to the Middle East.
A more efficient privatised coup represents the best chance of Uncle Sam removing Maduro and seizing Venezuela's oil riches. But there is a danger that such an attempt would fail against the 420,000-man Venezuelan army and its Russian, Cuban, and Chinese backers.
Such a failure would also have the unfortunate effect of discrediting further free market efforts to overhaul the espionage and political destablisation sectors, allowing the CIA to maintain its deathlike grip on these vital areas of US imperialism.
