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spike jones

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15. Why doesn't Ukraine hire professional mercenary to fight with them?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 17, 2022, 04:54 PM

Mar 2022

USA used them in Iraq. Private contractor companies like the one formally known as Black Water have thousands of soldiers to recruit from. I think Black Water had access to 100,00 fighters at one time. Of course, Erik Prince only wanted to kill Muslims.

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Belarusian volunteer battalion will come to help Ukrainian forces break the blockade of Mariupol [View all] highplainsdem Mar 2022 OP

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What equipment do they have? ColinC Mar 2022 #3

I'm starting to hope that one consequence of this was will be the overturn of Belarus's gov't ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2022 #6

Exactly!! nt oldsoftie Mar 2022 #16

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya - human rights activist Achilleaze Mar 2022 #20

Whatever happened to all those reports sarisataka Mar 2022 #7

Nothing definite yet. Some tweets suggesting those were sonic booms from aircraft rather than highplainsdem Mar 2022 #10

Oxplosions! SergeStorms Mar 2022 #12

LOL! No, but I fixed that typo. highplainsdem Mar 2022 #13

Pootie is in doo-doo. nt Samrob Mar 2022 #11

Why doesn't Ukraine hire professional mercenary to fight with them? spike jones Mar 2022 #15

because a lot of them probably think Putin is working with Trump to expose biolabs oldsoftie Mar 2022 #17

Probably because they don't need to. 2naSalit Mar 2022 #18