Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft
bloomberg.com
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war
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They're called mercenaries.
America came up with the stupid contractor term during their war on Brown people, I mean "terror".
As American mercenaries were running around committing atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mercenaries are illegal, contracted military isn’t
And it lets you commit war crimes without fault
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/are-private-military-contractors-any-different-from-mercenaries-20680
"They banned mercenaries so we'll just call them something different"
Potato...
Typical military euphemism. It's not "war department", it's "defense department".
Mercs, PMCs, same old thing with a fresh new "friendlier" label.
Totally different, this one favours corporations not workers
But both are still getting paid as private. So, mercenaries either way. And it isn't like Russia hasn't committed war crimes brazenly.
The older I get, the more I witness Kafkaesque.