The second oldest profession… entire armies used to be mercs.

@Banana36542

10 ай бұрын

First oldest profession goes to prostitution

@seandilallo8718

Ай бұрын

They will be again.

Becoming a mercenary is equivalent to become an adventurer doing guild quests.

@dathip

11 ай бұрын

LOL. yep and if you fail the quest you dont get XP nor can "level up"

@edgychico9311

11 ай бұрын

@@dathip you can get exp and can even lvl up slowly but the difficulty is set to hardcore with permanent death.

@dathip

11 ай бұрын

@@edgychico9311 FACTS!!

@skp8748

10 ай бұрын

​@@edgychico9311My brother told me the MASSIVE gulf in training and strategy as well as better equipment means it's not even close to a fair fight. Mercs are selected from various special forces then they get additional training and 90% of there work is training or advising other forces. They'll be in the Philippines for 3 months, then Turkmenistan then Eritrea then Bolivia. Sometimes it's providing additional security for the military to set up logistics, sometimes its helping plan ops and sometimes it's just training soldiers on new equipment. But if they're employed to engage they have soo much of an advantage it's almost like a professionals vs kids. Not to mention they're military planners usually don't care about individual lives but big operational goals whereas mercs plan not to have ANY casualties leading to disproportionate deaths on the otherside. US special forces are the best in the world not just because of their training and experience but because they never engage unless ALL the advantages from airsupport, evac routes, satellite data ect are all in their favour they always attack at night because they have the best night vision in the world. Mercs are not just guns for hire

@damperemu4445

9 ай бұрын

@@skp8748 maybe over a decade ago, now all you need is 5 years in the military and they'll take you.

I’m surprised Amazon does not have a private military arm yet

@TheAmbex

11 ай бұрын

That we know of anyway 😅

@torablack

11 ай бұрын

lkr.

@_Twink

11 ай бұрын

2 day delivery of mercenary death squad if you have prime.

@DemosBrutus

11 ай бұрын

Disney have one group of special mercenary operations.

@degeneration6493

11 ай бұрын

Mercenaries are separate business.

wish we could see DW documentary in this particular topic around the world and various nations

A mercenary is an adventurer in the original meaning of the word!

This idea is literally thousands of years old.

@brb__bathroom

11 ай бұрын

no denying it, but the world should be reminded of it at all times

@torablack

11 ай бұрын

lol, ikr

@methos4866

11 ай бұрын

Congrats you said the exact same thing as the video. Much smart such wow

@evaweiss1160

11 ай бұрын

Just like slavery…

@DemosBrutus

11 ай бұрын

Empires always have mercenaries.

Please make a 2 hour documentary on this topic

This was helpful! Thank you!

Thank you for putting present developments into the proper historical and political context. Wagner, Blackwater/Academi/Constellis and whatever else is out there are not much different from each other, and show a troubling trend of privatization of national armies.

@Worldaffairslover

11 ай бұрын

Blackwater isn’t out here taking tens of thousands of casualties😂 Wagner is lousy compared to blackwater

@tomlxyz

11 ай бұрын

If you look back in history it's actually uncommon to have a state funded standing army. Even Germany had private paramilitaries before ww2

@daniels7832

11 ай бұрын

@@Worldaffairslover Blackwater probably committed more war crimes as well. Plus, their former government sponsor had a generous "kill" spending budget compared to Wagner.

@Brendissimo1

11 ай бұрын

Wagner is notably different than any western PMC, for a whole host of reasons. They have some similarities, but your assertion is categorically false.

@Worldaffairslover

11 ай бұрын

@@Brendissimo1 Wagner grabs anyone who wants to get out of jail

Mercenary boom, they have existed for centuries nothing new

@T.efpunkt

11 ай бұрын

Millenia, not centuries

@methos4866

11 ай бұрын

That is literally what the video says as well

Why don't these mercs work for corporations? Imagine a war between coca-cola and pepsi.

@KeimpeCwalk

18 күн бұрын

Because they have both the same stakeholders

What about Blackwater? America uses contractors/mercenaries too.

@soreeyez

11 ай бұрын

This article is funded by Blackwater! 🤣

@cuc6410

11 ай бұрын

Contractors is another name for mercenaries

@methos4866

11 ай бұрын

They mention them in the video. Are you all bots or did you stop watching a few seconds in?

@ANK3555

2 ай бұрын

Well Said

All I can think is metal gear solid 4 predicting the future in a fashion

@denisalmeida1221

11 ай бұрын

War.... has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control.War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.

Two tier compensation is OK. Regular soldiers are paid less for not risking lives. Mercenaries like Wagner are paid really well to REALLY FIGHT and put lives at risk. They also get free rehab from prisons etc. Wagner took most of the heavy fighting and suffered heavy casualties. They deserved the great deals !

@user-bo5sj5ok8h

9 ай бұрын

No the killers doesnt deserve it

@lolgic930

4 ай бұрын

Not really, mercs just serve there where the government can’t put their force but have interests in an area. They mostly protect raw material depots and the most that they fight against is probably some insurgents with sub par training and equipment

Kojima got everything right.

Metal Gear Solid 4 predicted this, except with more robot walkers. Maybe not to far off in the future with how fast AI is developing.

Metal gear solid 4 predicted this

You definitely have my sub. This content is next level. For me cannafarm ltd was the turning point. Please keep doing what you do and keep being you, love it.

@phoenixzappa7366

11 ай бұрын

Ooooh your sub. You are so important. What would this huge news organisation have done without it. They only have 4.5 million others.

I wonder if people eventually catch on plausible deniability and it doesn't work like that anymore

USA has been doing this many decades. Pinkerton mercenaries killed 9 workers in a steel plant. Blackwater was used much as Wagner was in Ukraine.

@sH-ed5yf

11 ай бұрын

Nope blackwater was not used in that way. Or did you see blackwater recruiting tens of thousands of criminals as human waves to tske a city

@Trichmedia

11 ай бұрын

​@@sH-ed5yfwhat's the difference between mercenary and a criminal?, there's a thin line between mercenary and a criminal.

@sH-ed5yf

11 ай бұрын

@@Trichmedia beeing a mercenary by itself is not a crime. About blackwater, yes there was an incident where they acted recless and caused the death of a dozen civilians. I dont want to justifey this but seeing what wagner is doing in Afrika and the pathetic way they act in ukraine, invading a country illigally is criminal.

@Trichmedia

11 ай бұрын

@@sH-ed5yf 😀... I am speaking deeper than specifics, the aim is to kill for profit, control, superiority and create more suffering for the locals and not liberation, so what's the difference between them and criminals? You may think it's different because they are contracted by politicians but don't forget there are no good actors when it comes to war. Back in the Roman Empire, the pope contracted mercenaries to fight against the medici in Florence and the medici did as well. It's not about Russia or the US, they are all thesame, no difference. And about what's going on in Ukraine, Remember thesame happened in Iraq, Congo during Patrice Lumumba and still going on, Rwanda, Afghanistán and most recently in Libya.

@cuc6410

11 ай бұрын

​@@sH-ed5yfwhere in Africa and which country is called Africa?

Egypt used to hire slave mercenaries from the caucus, called “Mameluk”. Those mercenaries rebelled and ruled Egypt for centuries. They had legendary and wicked smart rulers, truly great. But the threat is always there.

@TheAmbex

11 ай бұрын

Ohhh those were in the old Total War games 😅

@torablack

11 ай бұрын

true dat

It's really sad to know...

7:30 - Your "expert" is incorrect. The U.S. and Russia did not invoke plausible deniability. The US asked Russia to withdraw their forces to which the Russian's responded that they aren't Russia or under their control. The US then bombed the units. It was a chess-game and the Russians miscalculated. But there was no "invoking" or plausible deniability. This is the kind of journalism that passes for fact? This is borderline misinformation the way you had that expert distort the facts, anyone with knowledge of the truth would have a problem with that.

When I was a child I wanted to be a mercenary like Blackwater.

@DemosBrutus

11 ай бұрын

Luckily you grow up.

The best PMC, is the PMC you don't know or hear about. Everyone knows Blackwater, and thinks it's the best PMC. Funny.

and that's all of them for sure 😉 I liked this video DW News yes!!!!👍😅

This certainly sounds good too, but I think its still worth considering more reliable options like traditional businesses such as cannafarm ltd, for example.

"everything has its price, what is yours?" Can also be asked a state or dictator. Money is power...

Video end: Mercen-ary = Merchant-army

Wagner is not a PMC, they always had one employer and they always acted in the interests of the Russian Federation.

Cool video! Id like to add that there are other investment options in businesses like cannafarm ltd as well.

I read a fascinating book on this guy called mercenary my friend I believe

You’d think in modern times war would be a thing of the past. We’ve not evolved much it seems.

@YllaSjofn

11 ай бұрын

War can never be a thing of the past when it's the nature of every living being that moves

@facts9538

11 ай бұрын

War is part of who we are. no matter how far we get. If we ever colonize Mars within 200-500 years it will be Eathlings vs Martians.

@drfelren

11 ай бұрын

@@russell6075 As long as intelligence, finite resources, and existential disagreements exist, there will be war. In short, war will never go away until we all do.

@drfelren

11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure you understand. We've evolved because we were able to kill our pray and out produce our competitors. Evolution is the process of natural selection, or the ability to consume and reproduce without being eaten or killed by something else. We are violent, ambitious, cunning, and wage war because we evolved that way, it is a testament to our evolution. War will continue as long as we have ambition and over populate this world with its' finite resources. It isn't evolution or intelligence that humanity is lacking, it is wisdom and empathy. Can we evolve to be more wise or empathetic? Maybe, but the benefit aren't as staight forward from an evolutionary and physical standpoint as lets say shanking your rival and stealing their stuff (you can extrapolate this example to a local regional or global level). I'm not defending war. War is terrible. One of the worst things that can possibly exist. I'm being realistic and pointing out that war has been essential for our existence. With out war, the powerful would kill us and we wouldn't be able to fight back. That would be more akin to murder. It takes two sides to fight a war, if only one side is fighting it is merely a massacre.

@Worldaffairslover

11 ай бұрын

Well, some countries have historical aspirations and want to redraw old borders

Zeitarbeit auch beim Militär immer beliebter 😂

These guys are so cool.

What is the true difference between a group of hitmen and a mercenary group?

Kojima predicted it

Thanks for pointing out other russian mercenary groups exist, and their responsibility for things like the coup in Haiti.

Like the 30 years war

*Mercenaries* are not a new thing.... As far back as time goes there has been *Mercenaries* taking lucrative contracts to fight in a army. Many Lords have hired *Mercenaries* over and over to fight under their banner along side regular soldiers. The *United States* may have lost the *Revolutionary War" if it was not for *French Mercenaries* fighting along side the rebels of the crown... In history we have seen *Mercenaries* win wars for countries, especially during the *Roman Empire* times.

A comedian, a KGB agent, an excon chef and a party boss walk into a....

A mercenaries is just an old thing trade that still exists today

The human species will never change. We are a hostile volatile species by nature. The difference is, some show it more bluntly than others. Scary world we live in.

Was it really 300 Wagner personell killed in that Syrian engagement? I read a lot of those killed were Iranian fighters, although at least a few were definitely Russian.

Oh God . . . This is Italian Wars' all over again . . .

Also serious point - the UK is over reliant on nukes and the navy and has ignored building up an army. In the probably inevitable confrontation I suspect it'll be cheaper and easier to just hire mercenaries, especially when you realise how many ex British soldiers now do it. Add to that PMC's with similar military doctrine and common languages (South African, Australian, Canadian PMC's) or those who have traditionally been friends (Ghurka PMC's) we may well see more in Western Europe. Especially as it's full of rich countries who are suddenly realising they have been relying too much on Uncle Sam who may well say "there's nothing in it for us to risk nuclear war for no real gain of us doing the heavy lifting"

No

How about doing a feature on Canada's RCMP or state troopers in the USA, both of whom force indigenous landowners from protecting their legal land rights from oil and gas companies that lay pipelines over their land?

Organized crime units can be considered mercenary groups (my opinion).

@assassinsrequiem

11 ай бұрын

In America's past, the "police" were only to enforce slavery & recapture any escaped slaves. They were absolutely a mercenary group then, and definitely act like thugs & gangs today. They have their fraternity initiations & hazings just like any gang does.

@OK-yy6qz

11 ай бұрын

Kind of. Organised crime groups are essentially illegal companies with their own economical and military sectors. I think insurgency groups in Africa and middle East backed by Governments outside or inside of the nation are essentially pheudo PMCs

@knowledgedesk1653

9 ай бұрын

They are more counted as guerrilla militias

"You can always buy them off" - become a permanent blackmail victim.

@Randy778

11 ай бұрын

The origin of the mafia. Have private security forces protect your assets then act suprised if they extort you.

Mercenary fighting forces have been a thing for literally thousands of years. In fact things like turning on their masters isn't anywhere near a new event either😂!

@benluciano4980

11 ай бұрын

They aren't masters, They are "Clients".

Don·t rely on mercenaries for defence . --Va

Metal gear solid.

For every human need there is a job to be filled.

the only point: why Wagner is considered a merc? it's a normal Government Agency. Fully equiped, financed by the government.

Jsoc analysts buildings tracks and manages nitrous cold brews showing up in Starbucks

Wow so many people in the comments literally stating the exact same thing as the video as if they didn't look beyond the title. Bunch of bots.

Funny that the USA isn't included in this documentary. Serving the master well.

@northstar1878

11 ай бұрын

Yes this channel is in the pockets of USA. Surely it won't say anything against its sponcer.

EO was such a professional outfit. Those ex SouthAfrican & Angolan spec forces made peace in 2weeks in the bloody Sierre Leone civil war. Something the UN couldn't do in 2 years. Sometimes your have to force peace before you can keep the peace.

Thank you for your research. I find your videos are well done. RIght now Im keeping an eye on Cannafarm ltd

people forgot blackwater back in 2003?

Thank you for sharing your insights and recommendations. Its great to explore various investment options, especially well-known companies like Cannafarm Ltd that are gaining popularity. Adding different ventures to our portfolio can help reduce risks in

It was Russia that denied they were russians, not the US, the US contacted russia on the deconfliction line and russia denied it was their forces, so the US attacked them after they fired first.

Last thing guy said "he left us with". Number one won't stay working if it even did with some of them and number 2 shows he is quick to be a coward to "suggest" trade money for a few lives, not all, than to be one with those who wrote history. Guys like him use to stay hiding under the farm animals dung and hay when soldiers came around to look for real front line soldier. Guys like him didn't have a voice indoors and in his corner. Having cameras and money is something isn't it? But let's keep talking about what we learned from history.

Blame gen Z for not joining armed force and state for not taking care of veterans.

Nice use of describing Elon Musk as "it" 😂. I now have an image of him dressed as Pennywise and asking Georgie if he wants to join him in the sewer ....

Seems to me a lot of these guys would be arrested and extradited,charged with war crimes as identified Wagner troops should if they enter any law abiding country

Nothing new here. Mercenaries have been a thing since basically the dawn of man.

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I honestly dont understand why youre discussing these dubious schemes. There are plenty of options like Cannafarm Ltd and similar ones that are fast and profitable.

I'm just a hunter. but you put money in my pocket I'm just another mercinary..

Based Mercenary

Abolish money

Tow series of ships with nuclear submarine

Pirates of the new age.

Umbra Catervae.

I dont know, all of this sounds questionable, with too many potential pitfalls. I believe there are more reliable options out there. I recently found a company called Cannafarm Ltd, and Ive been consistently earning with them. I think its better to foc

War, war has changed.....

Most PMC contractors are not mercenaries, the word gets thrown around a lot and some don't mind. This goes for many PMC companies including what was once called Blackwater. Most of them do force protection of bases, VIP and route security, sorry those are not mercenaries. The mercenary contracting on the U.S. side you don't hear much about unless something goes very bad. And no the fact that Russia used Wagner to attack American military in Syria did not prevent WW3.

Someone is not done their proper research. The Blackwater incident was in 2007. In the original footage shown to the news the day after show them taking fire from all around for almost 4 minutes before they return fire. By the second day of reporting that part of the footage was no longer shown.

Because in the western world, people are free. 👍

Or is it God's terrible Swiss sword?

Even though there are huge differences between Western and Russian private armies, it is not a good idea for any Western country to have one. When you break the rules and make the exception to have the private armies, your enemies can do the same at much worse.

How many U S mercs lost their lives in Iraq? At least 10 times more then U S troops

@sH-ed5yf

11 ай бұрын

Ah. Do you have any data or source to back thst up

@neddymerrill

11 ай бұрын

@@newmoon1448 Yeah, Blackwater is actually an NGO that provides humanitarian aid, lmao 🤣

@Worldaffairslover

11 ай бұрын

According to the Watson institute at Brown University, 749 private contractors died: 355 American, 130 🇹🇷, 58 🇬🇧, 225 others

@Brendissimo1

11 ай бұрын

This is an absurd and easily fact checked lie

@cuc6410

11 ай бұрын

​@@newmoon1448they don't carry guns but rather lollipops..lol we are laughing at you 😅😅😅😅

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East India company was the first

2nd Billaden, that to develop till take control a weak country.

The British used German (Hessian) soldiers during the American revolution. It’s not a new thing. Oligarchs using them is.

in the coming civil war in china, how would you all run a mercenary group or run an arms buisness? like to know

late bronze age arameans b like

NAFO mercenaries making their presence felt in the comments..... 😂

For Russia, Prigozhin, a thug who had worked for Putin, was an answer to what to do when the Russian army was hemorrhaging troops. A thug and gangster was able to take crimminals from Russian prisons to train for his mercenary army. For serving in the Wagner forces these ex-cons would earn a pardon no matter what horrible crimes had brought them into prison.

Again, what good are billionaire s?

Cyberpunk 2077

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because mercenarys was effective.

🤡🤡🤡 Thanks for getting us back to the archaic world.

😊😊 it's because they pay I'm talking 60000 US for 3 months depending on results. the government knows about it they just turn a blind eye. so why not be a hired gun?

Mercenary (noun): Criminally-inclined, unpatriotic thug paid to indulge his penchant for violence.

Poorly done video! I recommend to scrap it!