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
They’re called mercenaries.
Mercenaries are illegal, contracted military isn’t
And it lets you commit war crimes without fault
Potato…
Typical military euphemism. It’s not “war department”, it’s “defense department”.
Mercs, PMCs, same old thing with a fresh new “friendlier” label.
popular support of the war
This baffles me
At this point it’s pretty obvious that all you need to make something popular is to have all the media repeat it in unison. Works great on our people as well.
Russia about to scam some more Indians by dumping them on the front with a rifle.
So when are they going to enlist some Somali pirates
