• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Nothing he wrote is controversial.

    -Mercenaries get paid.

    -Mercenaries as a group don’t hold allegiance to a country

    -Mercenaries don’t like not getting paid.

    • bobman@unilem.org
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t say it was ‘controversial’, just inaccurate. There’s no controversy about it.

      What makes you think military members are more loyal to their nation than mercenaries? Heck, one of my most upvoted responses says “Wagner was more gungho about the war in Ukraine than the military.”

      For a lot of mercenaries, the military doesn’t go far enough or give them the freedom to shape the nation how they want.

      Literally everything you said can also be said about soldiers, and in most cases it would be more accurate.