Ukrainian Special Forces are recruiting Syrian mercenaries to fight in the disputed Donbass region. The American media has mostly declined to report on this event, for reasons that I’ll leave up to readers to infer. However, The Syrian Observer reported last month that Turkish special forces asked Syrian militants to prepare for deployment to Ukraine. Note that many of these combatants are veterans of militias and terror groups from the North Caucasus.
During feuds between the USA and Russia, Ankara typically maintains a “middle of the road” posture, not overly favoring one or the other. In a break from that lukewarm policy, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has pledged “unequivocal support” to Kiev. In addition to mercenaries, this support includes a new fleet of drones already seeing action amidst escalating violence in Eastern Ukraine.
The recruitment of mercenaries is commonplace in modern warfare and has the usual taste of irony we should all be accustomed to by now. In his declaration of national emergency, President Joe Biden sanctioned individuals involved with Wagner Group (Группа Вагнера), a paramilitary organization with ties to the Kremlin. There is growing overall pressure against Wagner Group, including media condemnation and even a lawsuit. You see, NATO can deploy mercenaries wherever extrajudicial murder is required, but no one else can. “Do as I say, not as I do!” Our glorious leader shouts from the White House rooftop.
I’ve brought up mercenaries more than once in the past. Biden himself is a senile puppet but has real kingmakers behind the curtain; those kingmakers are working to effectively dismantle the bulk of the American military and replace it with corporate death squads. Legitimate soldiers are beholden to their oath to the U.S. Constitution, so why replace them? For that exact reason.
Mercenaries have no loyalty except to money, and there are other advantages. They can commit war crimes with impunity, and their deaths can slip under the radar. Not even one American soldier can die without the public knowing about it, and rightly so. But ten, a hundred, or a thousand mercenaries could die without a single American serf catching wind of it.
Do not forget how easily the media distracts us:
Like every other job in the American economy, mercenary work has been largely outsourced to third-world and war-torn countries. Thugs in those regions can be recruited on the cheap, and their deaths are even easier to cover up.
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