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
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/are-private-military-contractors-any-different-from-mercenaries-20680
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
“They banned mercenaries so we’ll just call them something different”
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.