Carlyle Group Managing Director and Vice Chair, Global Affairs James Stavridis was on The Colbert Show last night.
Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret, is Vice Chair, Global Affairs and a Managing Director with a focus on international activities and global strategy for Carlyle. He is based in Washington DC.Carlyle cut its teeth profiting from weapons of war. Those profits grew at least three billionaires with outsized influence on U.S. government policy.
Earlier in the show Stephen Colbert remarked about billionaires in his "Space News" segment.
Colbert made no mention of Admiral Stavridis position with The Carlyle Group, a politically connected private equity underwriter. It may have been enlightening to hear how Carlyle plans to make massive profits from the significant dislocations occurring throughout the globe. Stephen had Carlyle's global strategist in a chair for over nine minutes and the world is mostly unaware.
Update 4-3-23: Responsible Statecraft reported:
A prominent regular columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, Ret. Adm. James Stavridis, has published multiple columns over the past year urging greater U.S. investments in cybersecurity and cyber-defenses while failing to disclose to readers potential conflicts of interest due to work in the defense industry.
Declaring financial conflicts of interest is so passe in our PEU world....
