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
So when are they going to enlist some Somali pirates
popular support of the war
This baffles me
It shouldn’t. Russia controls all of its media. To Russians, Putin is fighting a war to free their ancestral homeland from Nazis.
Also older generations that lived through the 90s know what a collapse of the Russian state means. For them it is a terrifying thought to have to live through that … again.
To top that off, It is not as if they have any alternatives. Even Navalny was a right wing scumbag who though Crimea belonged to russia … and he was considered the good guy.
They’re called mercenaries.
Mercenaries are illegal, contracted military isn’t
And it lets you commit war crimes without fault
Potato…
Totally different, this one favours corporations not workers
“They banned mercenaries so we’ll just call them something different”
LOL, hire from where?
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If you are referring to US veterans, you’d have to be a exceptionally special kind of stupid to volunteer to be on the business end of American weapons after seeing what they can do to others firsthand.
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Poor countries you can exploit: Nepal, Kazakhstan, India, Usbekistan, etc.
Russians are pussies. Not like war is popular in any country, but if you’re going to support it at least be willing to commit to it. In America we protested and they haven’t done a draft in over 45 years and we still have plenty of ‘patriots’ still willing to fight our wars. Or just involve some proxy nation. With Russia, it’s either you support it or straight to jail and few Russians have the balls to stand up en masse let alone leave the country.
With Russia, it’s either you support it or straight to jail
With Ukraine it’s the same.
few Russians have the balls to stand up en masse let alone leave the country
Ukrainians don’t even have the options of leaving the country, they are imprisoned by the government, with the support from the USA. And almost nobody is talking about that let alone condemning it. After all, it’s bad and is a violation of human rights only when countries USA doesn’t like (North Korea, etc.) do it, doing it with approval of USA is totally okay and humane! Right?
