Private military contractors were the legal term for mercenaries. It was also a term that caused headaches and headaches for the leaders of various countries.
They were unscrupulous and treated war as a business. For the sake of their mission, they could ignore international law, civilian casualties, and all moral issues. They used the lowest cost method to complete the most difficult mission. They had a bad reputation, but their employers didn't have to bear the burden of their bad reputation. Needless to say, they were much more useful than the regular army.
Speaking of mercenaries, UA had to be mentioned. No country in the world understood the meaning of mercenaries better than them, just like only gangsters understood villains.
From the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan, the black blood flowing in the steel machinery could smoothly flow from the third world to the first world. Half of the credit belonged to these desperados.
Not only on the battlefield, but in some politically unstable areas, UA mercenaries could be seen. As long as there was a need, private military companies could appear in places the military was unwilling or inconvenient to appear. They could replace the military to complete the mission of exporting UA's military and diplomatic influence to the world. Even if they failed, they could deny it. Without a doubt, it was much more useful than the Marine Corps. Because sending out ground troops to land in another country was an act of war, but sending out mercenaries was not.
However, the privatization of the military also brought about huge social problems. It was unrealistic to expect private mercenaries to follow the rules of morality in another country.
In 2006, the incident of UA shooting civilians in Iraq caused a huge uproar on the internet. It was later confirmed that the perpetrators were two contractors from Clover Jungle. As to the reason for the crime, it was absurd to the point of being shocking. One of the perpetrators' colleagues confirmed that he said he must kill someone because he didn't kill anyone in Iraq.
But no matter what, the US military avoided a lawsuit from human rights organizations because the murderer was not a soldier in the military.
Although for the infamous US military, it was better than nothing to lose this bit of infamy.
And now, the international problems faced by Xin and Country F were the same.
Disregarding the fact that they sunk F fishing boats that trespassed into the military restricted zone, and disregarding whether Ivan's "one-minute warning" met the standard of "effective warning", whether the military actions of mercenaries could be considered an act of war was something that had yet to be determined internationally.
Then the question was, Xin hired private mercenaries to protect the border, and the private mercenaries followed the law and sunk the F fishermen who didn't listen to the warning. Was Xin in the wrong?
Any country that broke into a military base had the right to kill the trespasser, but it was rare for a country to enforce this right. Instead, they would expel the trespasser out of humanitarian considerations or detain the trespasser before expelling the trespasser to avoid causing international problems.
Has any country really implemented this right? Of course there were. For example, on July 11, 2008, a South Korean tourist on a trip to Mt. Kumgang accidentally entered the North Korean military zone and was shot dead by the North Korean soldiers. Although North Korea was not at fault, it was "regrettable." The South Korean government announced Monday that its citizens will be banned from traveling to the DPRK.
But the problem Xin faced now was much lighter because it was a private military contractor that sank the fishing boat, not Xin's army.
Having said that, he had to praise the new cabinet formed by President Zhang Yaping. They had indeed handled the crisis well.
Jiang Chen only gave one order, which was to "never compromise on territorial issues, never compromise on sovereignty issues, and never apologize if there are no mistakes." But it was the politicians who were busy trying to talk their way out of this.
Although Xin's Minister of Defense was a commander without an army, he still made constructive statements. For example, they used the method of kicking the ball to appease Country F. They insisted that it was Celestial that sank the fishing boat and not the Department of Defense's order.
On the other hand, Celestial insisted that they were only executing their mission and strictly followed the contract to defend the national border. Blame the contract and the law, they were only taking the money.
Therefore, the diplomats of Country F were kicking the ball back and forth.
After more than half a month, under Jiang Chen's instruction, the salvage work finally began.
Although they didn't allow Country F's ships to enter the country to assist in the salvage, Xin still invited representatives from the international media to participate in the salvage process to ensure the "fairness" of the salvage results.
However, what surprised everyone was that they actually found assault rifles and other light weapons on Country F's fishing boat.
Why were there light weapons on the fishing boat? Was it a false accusation or was there something else? All of a sudden, the major media had their own opinions and couldn't come to a conclusion on the incident itself.
At the same time, the harassment of Pannu Islands' fishermen in the waters around New Moon Island as well as their malicious actions of sinking Xin's fishing boats were all sorted out. Including the narration of the fisherman's son, as well as the relevant documents, it was made into a 50-minute documentary that was released on a social media platform. Immediately after, Future 1.0's news push panel reposted the video with an eye-catching title that pushed it to the world.
The video was only online for a day, but the number of views already exceeded ten million. Other online media also followed the trend and created a huge wave in the international public opinion. Almost all the sympathy for Country F turned into criticism of Country F's crimes.
Country F's government immediately jumped out and accused Future International of not reporting the truth, exaggerating the facts, and violating the neutral position of news media. They couldn't favor Xin just because they had an engineering partnership with Xin.
At the same time, Country F's spokesperson also requested Future International to immediately delete the relevant comments and apologize to the people of Country F.
Would Jiang Chen apologize to a bunch of monkeys? That was obviously not the case.
Future International issued a statement that the video didn't represent the company's position. Future 1.0 only reposted the video and wasn't the publisher of the video, so it wouldn't take responsibility. At the same time, Future International refused to delete the video in the name of freedom of speech and refused to apologize.
Although this action caused strong dissatisfaction in Country F, it won the collective applause of the outsiders – the Hua people.
Because of this, Future Technology not only didn't suffer any losses, but it also benefited a lot.
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"You pigs, do you all eat sh * t!" Aquino was furious as he pointed at Country F's Foreign Affairs Minister. "How many times have I said it? Be tough! Put pressure on their government with a tough attitude! We have an army of 120,000, 11 times more than their population! "
"But Mr. President … Our diplomatic language is tough enough. Some of the statements can even be seen as war threats, but they don't seem to be afraid of us." The Foreign Affairs Minister smiled bitterly.
Aquino paused for a moment.
"Looks like we need to teach them a lesson. These monkeys on the Pacific Ocean don't know their place," the Defense Minister viciously suggested.
"But the UA wants us to maintain restraint on this issue. Excessive pressure could make a neutral country fall into Hua's camp." The Foreign Affairs Minister objected.
"But if we don't do anything, our citizens won't be satisfied," the Defense Minister argued.
Aquino fell into deep thought as he listened to the argument of the cabinet members.
Suddenly, a vicious glint flashed across his eyes.
"Mercenaries … Mercenaries, right? Good."
He already had an idea in his mind.
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