our shadow foreign policy "experts".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html

The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.

The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.

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on the Seychelles meeting.

He does have a small army of dangerous mercenaries under his control.

It would make sense that it was the UAE.

Can’t rip off the oil when infidels who do not worship gold stand in the way.

Soleimani must have encroached on Prince’s army of mercenaries profits. Prince slaughters people for money, that’s all he cares about, killing people to get rich. He’s pure evil.

There is a nonzero chance Trump had the guy whacked because he wouldn't give Trump everything he asked for.