Wagner mercenaries were on Thursday reported to be trying to head back into Russia after threatening retaliation over the suspected killing of their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash on the orders of Vladimir Putin. “The convoys are likely heading towards the border with Russia,” the centre said. “There’s a lot talk right now about what the Wagner Group will do,” he said.
  • bobman@unilem.orgEnglish
    219·
    1 year ago

    Mercenaries have no allegiance to anybody.

    I mean, that’s not entirely true. Some mercenaries actually have allegiance to their companies and really care about their goals.

    You’d actually be way more accurate talking about soldiers in the state’s military than mercenaries.

    • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eeEnglish
      615·
      1 year ago

      This is historically ignorant. Before professional armies, mercenaries would literally have their camps set up in a country that hired them, only to turn and ransack a nearby town after an enemy spy came in and paid them more to do it. Western society literally invented professional armies because of mercenaries.