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Re:US mercenaries arrested in Haiti, part of a scheme to mov... by pytyper2 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:51PM (#19445490)
It's all about who you call after you have been detained.
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Re:US mercenaries arrested in Haiti, part of a scheme to mov... by trhway on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:07PM (#19445676)
for example, private military contracting is outright explicitly illegal in Russia. That didn't prevent in anyway a well known Russian private military company to fight in Ukraine and Syria ... both times of course for the side supported by Putin.
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Re:US mercenaries arrested in Haiti, part of a scheme to mov... by sremani on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:55PM (#19446187)
The Russian "Blackwater" is called Wagner Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

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Re:US mercenaries arrested in Haiti, part of a scheme to mov... by ochoseis on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:48PM (#19446702)
These guys are also in Venezuela right now:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/venezuela-madu...

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