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by devoply 2515 days ago
With the sort of salaries US pays troops you could easily have a million mercs lined up from all sorts of different countries by Thursday next week.
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Where would the million mercs come from ?

Is there even a million of mercenaries available around the entire world ?

How would you make them even work together ?

A million people is huge.

To do what exactly?
Liberate Hong Kong.
I recommend you study the human history of politics and warfare, to fully understand why your comment is supremely naive.
How would sending ground troops into Hong Kong, or China accomplish anything but getting a lot of people killed?
You mean like the US liberated Iraq ?

EDIT: damn it, Irak (french) is spelled with a q in English.

Innocent question why spell Iraq with a k I've never seen that before and wondering if it has special meaning outside of just a way to spell it
It's spelled that way in a lot of European languages.