{"id":693897,"date":"2026-03-30T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693897"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:33:51","slug":"even-erik-prince-warns-iran-will-burn-it-down-boots-on-the-ground-could-mean-burning-american-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693897","title":{"rendered":"Even Erik Prince Warns Iran Will &#8220;Burn It Down&#8221; &#8211; Boots On The Ground Could Mean &#8220;Burning American Warships&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Blackwater, whose private military contractors became synonymous with the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, is pushing back hard on current U.S. strategy toward Iran.\u00a0<strong>Prince issued a sobering warning at CPAC last week<\/strong>.\u00a0Speaking on the \u201cBreaking Stuff and Killing Bad Guys\u201d panel, Prince expressed deep skepticism about the current trajectory of U.S. involvement in Iran:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t share the optimism of the administration that there\u2019s going to be a peaceful stop to this.\u00a0They will burn it down<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>e then highlighted the particular dangers of committing ground forces:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd\u00a0<strong>my real concern is that if they try to put<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>boots on the ground<\/strong>\u00a0and force the\u00a0<strong>Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>, you will see\u00a0<strong>imagery of burning American warships<\/strong>\u00a0in the next couple of weeks. And I don\u2019t think people are really prepared for that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/even-erik-prince-warns-iran-will-burn-it-down-boots-ground-could-mean-burning-american\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/even-erik-prince-warns-iran-will-burn-it-down-boots-ground-could-mean-burning-american<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Blackwater, whose private military contractors became synonymous with the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, is pushing back hard on current U.S. strategy toward Iran.\u00a0Prince issued a sobering warning at CPAC last week.\u00a0Speaking on the \u201cBreaking Stuff and Killing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693901,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693897\/revisions\/693901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}