The financial incentives will be huge.
In Iraq we used Blackwater, Triple Canopy and Aires.
Back then (I had friends that did this) they were paying I believe $150k and that was 20 years ago!
Those were real mercenaries.
What were talking about here though is different. These are basically service members pretending to be mercenaries so that Poland, the US etc can lie about not having an active part in the fight / forces on the ground.
Still, getting 150 to chase Apaches in Iraq is a very different thing than going into WWI trench/artillery warfare.
Skills can help you get through something like Iraq. Skills don’t help you get through Verdun, Bakhmut etc...
Only an idiot would volunteer to fight there just for money.
“””Those were real mercenaries.”””
Those were armed contractors helping in areas of support, “real mercenaries” have traditionally been the combat muscle like Russia uses mercenaries.
Wagner is an example of “real mercenaries” they brought firepower and leadership and combat muscle to lead the fight and win major victories, and losing 10’s of thousands of men doing it.
“The financial incentives will be huge.
In Iraq we used Blackwater, Triple Canopy and Aires.
Back then (I had friends that did this) they were paying I believe $150k and that was 20 years ago!”
Pretty pathetic to claim yourself to part of “we” when supposedly advocating against NATO.
More glaring is referring to Blackwater and other Iraq-era PSF companies as mercenaries. Go talk to a State Department official about these subjects.
Are Secret Service details “mercenaries” when they operate in a conflict zone? Probably to you....