Yesterday Hezbollah, today hiring cannon fodder at $200-300 for a six month stint from the pool of Russia-linked Syrian paramilitaries, while trained Syrian combat troops from the 4th Armored Division and 5th Corps are to get up to $3000. [AnNahar] With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria.
Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast country, where its intervention - starting in 2015 - helped Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad |