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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by atemerev on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:59PM (#20972113)
So is Academi. Their primary mission is protecting corporate interests in unstable countries / war zones. Asgaard used to do the same (I am not sure if they still exist).
Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by sorokod on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:37PM (#20972806)
Academi a.k.a. Blackwater of "Nisour Square massacre" [1] ? Same company whose founder is pitching "to deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro" [2] ? Same company that is now a member of the Constellis Group[3] ?

Pardon me for not taking the corporate rebranding shenanigans too seriously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-erikpr...

[3] https://constellis.com/sectors/government

Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by atemerev on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:48PM (#20972881)
Well, Maduro put Venezuela into deep humanitarian crisis already, with looting and starvation abound, so it is pretty normal that somebody wants to do something about that. Even if only for profit reasons.