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Doubtful. They are mercenaries and won’t be getting paid anymore. Mercenaries have no allegiance to anybody.

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Just because the leader was presumably killed, doesn’t mean they stop getting paid. Do you get fired from your job if your boss dies?

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If your boss is the CEO and owner, maybe yeah.

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If your boss was the one that had connections with the client, then maybe eventually yeah.

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They’re in the hire of Russia, do you imagine Russia is going to pay them to march on Moscow

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If they aren’t getting paid, might that instigate some revolt as well?

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And who do you suppose is paying them? Putin?

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Idk about that one, they’re employed by Wagner, Wagner is essentially the business entity that allows them to operate as a mercenary group. Who knows how much loyalty they have to their own command structure? If I were the owner of a private Merc army, I would try to instill as much loyalty as I can so they don’t turn on me.

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He’s just saying things that sound nice in his head but have no basis in reality.

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Nothing he wrote is controversial.

-Mercenaries get paid.

-Mercenaries as a group don’t hold allegiance to a country

-Mercenaries don’t like not getting paid.

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Mercenaries have no allegiance to anybody.

I mean, that’s not entirely true. Some mercenaries actually have allegiance to their companies and really care about their goals.

You’d actually be way more accurate talking about soldiers in the state’s military than mercenaries.

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This is historically ignorant. Before professional armies, mercenaries would literally have their camps set up in a country that hired them, only to turn and ransack a nearby town after an enemy spy came in and paid them more to do it. Western society literally invented professional armies because of mercenaries.

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Even if it’s true…what does that change? I mean, bobman said that some mercenaries have alliegance to their companies. Not countires, companies. So mercs from Wagner have alliegance to Wagner Group, not Russia.

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You’re comparing apples to oranges.

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It could be a move to force Putin to pay them off now they are masterless.

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I’m sure there would be lots to loot, or taking ownership of profitable ex government corporations…

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