Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it tries to avoid a new mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war.

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

    • @Son_of_dadEnglish
      10•8 months ago

      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.

      • @zikEnglish
        8•8 months ago

        “They banned mercenaries so we’ll just call them something different”

        • @oursEnglish
          3•8 months ago

          Typical military euphemism. It’s not “war department”, it’s “defense department”.

          Mercs, PMCs, same old thing with a fresh new “friendlier” label.

      • @TankovayaDiviziyaEnglish
        1•8 months ago

        But both are still getting paid as private. So, mercenaries either way. And it isn’t like Russia hasn’t committed war crimes brazenly.

        The older I get, the more I witness Kafkaesque.