signal11 comments

Unfortunately, Chinese mask compliance doesn't help you draw and conclusions or working inferences for the simple reason that although they are labeled as heing at KN95 standard, none of them have been tested to have been manufactured to spec.

More like a mercenary.

So, that word "mercenary." It doesn't really think what you think it means. Receipt of pay is not the only determinant of whether or not that would apply someone, either in popular usage or by legal definitions for the simple reason that pay has been a function of all matter of miitary formation

For starters, volunteers for the Ukrainian International Brigade contract to the Ukrainian military for the duration of the volunteer's service, which places them under a flag - Ukraine's , a party to the hostilities - and under the command of its commissioned officers. By definition, these are not mercenaries in the modern military sense.

In modern colloquial or layman's usage, a mercenary is a soldier of fortune, or one who engages in the activities of war primarily for monetary or material reward, with the explicit or implicit understanding that other allegiances being of little of no consequence or.