To: dj55 who wrote (4108 ) 10/30/2024 6:55:15 AM From: IC720 Respond to Do consider this another reason Biden opened, and Harris has done nothing to secure Border.“Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.” Sound familiar? Adam Kinzinger claims we could defeat Russia in three days. For publicity’s sake, when the Iraq War was not over in five weeks or even five months, the risk of a Vietnam-like draft to fill the ranks, or they would contract out for mercenaries. In Iraq, 50% of the US force was mercenaries. In Afghanistan, mercenaries reached 70%. In WW2, mercenaries accounted for only 10%. Neocons can use mercenaries and send them to invade without Congressional Acts of War since they are no officially American troops. This dangerously creates a strategic dependency on the private sector to sustain war, and those in power then have “plausible deniability” since Americans are not coming home in body bags. NOT a war crime if a mercenary rather than a government carries it out. Contractors don’t count as “boots on the ground” sending in their mercenaries. This actually undermines all accountability of the armed forces. Congress typically has no idea of who’s being contracted. They do not see the details.The Neocons love mercenaries, for they do not need a Declaration of War from Congress and can order an invasion of Russia, as they have just done, with no accountability. They can start and expand wars for profit and personal vengeance. Out of work, mercenaries are so accustomed to violence that they are not easily re-emerged into a society where law and conduct are accountable. There’s a lot of historical evidence for this from the European Middle Ages when mercenaries were routinely used, and when unemployed, they did not return nicely to society.
