With mercenaries increasingly seen as a go-to solution for some of the world's most devilish security problems, Blackwater founder and Donald Trump donor Erik Prince is reported to be pitching his private military services in Ukraine.

Russia's dependence on hired guns for its costly invasion of Ukraine is well-known, at first through the cocktail of atrocities and treason served up by the Wagner Group , and now via an elaborate ecosystem of other Kremlin-linked corporations fielding tens of thousands of Russian "volunteers" on the frontlines, supplemented by third-country mercenaries from Asia and Africa .

African states, too, have started hiring Russian , Turkish , Romanian , and South African private military companies (PMCs) to battle insurgencies, to deploy dr

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