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Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince talks about mercenary armies. Briefly, as everything in that book.

Russia has a huge army. Its use of mercenaries is not brandishing the russian flag for invasions



"Mercenaries" in pre-modern times were people whose career was soldiering. They were available to any principality that would pay them. Not the same as volunteer military now who only fight for their own country.

Russia is a different case altogether.




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