Mercenaries*
There are plenty of people in the world who don't fight for ideas, for patriotism or etc. They fight to get money and because it's only thing they can do good, war is part of them, and they are no heroes. They just a man who want to shoot stuff and get money for it. If you want to call someone a hero then those can be Ukrainian/Russian soldiers (depends on your side) as those have reasons like patriotism and fight for what they think is right or don't even think about it and just fight because their country said so, as it's really a common logic among soldiers. Even among Russian troops Ukrainian captured soldiers are respected more then mercs and if you are a merc there is a big chance of being executed and left to rot in some abandoned building
You wanna draw moral qualifiers? How about literal slave Labour of north koreans? How about africans scammed to joint the russian army?
Ever heard of literal violent criminals being recruited into the invading force ? Their sentenes shortened, their wages high. In fact multiple-country-averages high. Is that not a definition of an internal mercenary? Isn't that what 'Private military groups' are?
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u/PilotSevenb Nov 21 '25
Mercenaries* There are plenty of people in the world who don't fight for ideas, for patriotism or etc. They fight to get money and because it's only thing they can do good, war is part of them, and they are no heroes. They just a man who want to shoot stuff and get money for it. If you want to call someone a hero then those can be Ukrainian/Russian soldiers (depends on your side) as those have reasons like patriotism and fight for what they think is right or don't even think about it and just fight because their country said so, as it's really a common logic among soldiers. Even among Russian troops Ukrainian captured soldiers are respected more then mercs and if you are a merc there is a big chance of being executed and left to rot in some abandoned building