{"id":181811,"date":"2016-03-10T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/10\/a-lesson-that-we-should-learn-from-russia\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T01:01:00","slug":"a-lesson-that-we-should-learn-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/10\/a-lesson-that-we-should-learn-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson That We Should Learn from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They know <a href=\"http:\/\/warisboring.com\/articles\/believe-it-or-not-russia-dislikes-relying-on-military-contractors\/\">how to properly hate on mercenaries<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Jan. 28, the Duma began discussing the possibility of legalizing private military companies in Russia. The law, which counts influential vice prime minister Dmitry Rogozin as a supporter, has one major goal \u2014 to ensure that Iraqi oil fields where Russian firms Rosneft and Gazprom operate no longer come under the protection of British or American security companies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Back in April 2012, Russian president Vladimir Putin pointed out the need for Russia to pass contractor-friendly legislation. Putin praised private military companies as \u201cinstruments to further national interests without the direct involvement of the government.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The center-left A Just Russia Party proposed a draft of the PMC bill in November 2014, but the Duma defense committee rejected it. Members of parliament returned with a revised text in December 2014, which the committee again turned down, deeming it \u201cinarticulate,\u201d \u201cuseless\u201d and \u201cirrelevant.\u201d The FSB security agency and the Ministry of Defense both voiced concern of one day seeing \u201ctens of thousands of uncontrollable Rambos turning their weapons against the government.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It seemed Russian authorities had not forgotten the chaotic 1990s, a time when countless unpaid military officers sold their services to the highest bidder.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, the US government, and our poodles in London, continue to be all in on employing mercenaries, even though the corrosive effects of their activities both on our military and on the countries where they operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They know how to properly hate on mercenaries: On Jan. 28, the Duma began discussing the possibility of legalizing private military companies in Russia. The law, which counts influential vice prime minister Dmitry Rogozin as a supporter, has one major goal \u2014 to ensure that Iraqi oil fields where Russian firms Rosneft and Gazprom operate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,1179,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-mercenaries","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}