• @StrawberryPigtails
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    32 months ago

    To figure that out you’d first have to decide how you want to define “mercenary”. Depending on how you define the word, either almost everyone was a mercenary or, if you use the current Geneva Convention definition, almost no one was.

    The truth, as usual, is probably somewhere in that murky, uncomfortable middle ground that no one likes to look at or acknowledge.