Fucking scum

Think they are villains... Uh, because they are? If 99% of the people you know call you an asshole, you may be an asshole.

I don't know, man. Like, they're just guys, y'know, just trying to make a little bit of money by killing some folks in a sovereign foreign nation on behalf of a totalitarian dictator, y'know.

I mean, we all got, like, bills to pay, man.

Most of the world things they're villains because they're fighting for one.

What debt does a convict have? Family has moved on, very likely he had to leave sweetheart back in prison , or he died in Ukraine? Now he is free to return to life of crime (instead of Crimea ....)

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And this is the right answer.

People think what they are told to think

You gotta do what you gotta do. It's like the sign says.

This is probably a propaganda post

Man, check your autocorrect feature, it changed KNOWS to "think" by mistake.

You forgot to mention that they, y'know, probably killed someone before, or raped, or, y'know, mugged someone, that's why they're convicted.

The plus side is Russia now has to deal with all these well-trained criminals scurrying about

Well.. It's like they dont have a choice.

'Mercenary boss hugs returning mercenaries' doesn't exactly prove that most Russians see them as heros. Like, even the support the troups diehards aren't inherently gonna stan everyone working for blackwater.

And those who didn't come back are victims of a war started by a mad man

NATO fucked around and found out, now Russia and China have taken over

They do. These guys were recruited from prisons and colonies, in return for freedom/reduced sentence. I call that a choice.