Not that much respect. Leave your home and go on war adventures for money? That’s human trash. Over two decades of constant war has produced a bumper crop of war adventurers who are unwilling to be productive members of society. It’s the same mentality as the idiot base jumpers etc. Or the idiots falling off cliffs while taking a selfie. These violent narcissists even videotape their adventures for thrilling video they can show people.
No, I’ll skip the respect and see them as the depraved people our sick society has created.
It takes courage to literally fight for your ideals, I have known many mercenaries, and all of them that I knew from the 70s and 80s were looking to fight against communism, it wasn’t money.
When it comes to these guys in Ukraine, how much are they making as volunteers? As far as I know, the volunteers in Ukraine are getting regular army pay.