Private military contractor, this is the legal name for mercenaries, and it is also a term that causes headaches and troubles for heads of state.
They use whatever means necessary to treat war as a business. For the sake of the mission, they can ignore international law, civilian casualties, and all moral issues, and use the lowest-cost means to complete the most difficult mission. They have a bad reputation, but their employers don't have to worry about their bad reputation. I have to say that they are much easier to use than the regular army.
Speaking of mercenaries, the United States has to be mentioned here. There is probably no country in the world that understands the meaning of mercenaries better than they do, just like the only people who can understand villains are hooligans.
From the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan, the black blood flowing in the steel machinery can flow smoothly from the third world to the first world, and half of the credit belongs to these desperadoes.
Not only on frontal battlefields, but also in some areas with political turmoil, the voices and shadows of American mercenaries can be seen. As long as necessary, private military companies can appear in places where the Pentagon is unwilling or inconvenient to appear, and complete the task of exporting US military affairs and diplomatic influence to the world on its behalf. Even if they fail, they can deny it. This is undoubtedly much easier to use than the Marine Corps. Because sending ground troops to land in other countries is an act of war, but sending mercenaries is not.
However, the social problems brought about by this kind of military privatization are also huge. It is undoubtedly an unrealistic luxury to expect private mercenaries to observe moral discipline in other countries.
In 2006, the shooting of civilians by the US military in Iraq caused outrage on the Internet. It was later confirmed that the perpetrators were two Clover Jungle contractors. As for the reason for committing the crime, it is even more ridiculous and shocking. A colleague of one of the perpetrators confirmed that he had said that he must kill someone that day because he had never beaten anyone in Iraq.
But no matter what, the US military avoided a lawsuit from a human rights organization. Because the murderer was not a registered soldier.
Although for the notorious US military, the lack of this notoriety is better than nothing.
Now, the international problems faced by New Zealand and the Philippines are also the same.
Let’s not talk about the sinking of Philippine fishing boats that broke into military restricted areas. Putting aside whether Ivan's "one-minute warning" meets the standard of "effective warning", whether the military actions of mercenaries can be counted as acts of war is a matter that has not yet been concluded internationally.
Then here comes the problem. New Zealand hired private mercenaries to protect its borders, and the private mercenaries actually enforced the law and sank Philippine fishermen who did not listen to warnings. Is New Zealand at fault in this matter
Any country that breaks into a military base has the right to kill the intruder, but generally few countries will enforce this right. Instead, they will expel the intruder out of humanitarian considerations, or detain and then expel them. Avoid causing international problems.
Has any country actually implemented this right? Of course there is. For example, on July 11, 2008, a South Korean female tourist visiting Mount Kumgang accidentally entered the North Korean military restricted area and was shot and killed by North Korean soldiers. Although North Korea is not wrong. But it's "regrettable". The South Korean government announced on the 11th that it would temporarily ban citizens from traveling to North Korea from the 12th.
However, the problems faced by the new country are much lighter now, because it was private military contractors who sank the fishing boats, not the regular army of the new country.
Having said that, I have to praise the new cabinet established by President Zhang Yaping. They have handled the crisis public relations really well.
Jiang Chen had only one order, which was "never compromise on territorial issues, never give in on sovereignty issues, and never apologize if there are no mistakes." However, it was the politicians who were busy making excuses for this.
Although the Minister of Defense of the new country is a mere commander, he still made a very constructive speech. For example, to deal with the Philippines by kicking the ball. It insists that it was the Star Circle Trading Company that sank the fishing boat. It is not the mandate of the Department of Defense.
On the other hand, Starring Trading Company insists that it is only performing its mission and strictly fulfilling its obligation to defend the national border in accordance with the contract. If you want to blame, blame the contract and the law, we just took money to do things.
As a result, Philippine diplomats seem to be kicking the ball back and forth between the two sides.
After practicing Tai Chi like this for more than half a month, under Jiang Chen's instruction, the work of salvaging the sunken ship finally began.
Although Philippine ships were not allowed to enter the country to assist in the salvage, New Zealand still invited representatives from some international media to participate in the salvage process to ensure the "fairness" of the salvage results.
However, what surprised everyone was that assault rifles and other light weapons and equipment were actually found on the Philippine fishing boat.
Why were light weapons found on fishing boats? Is it a frame-up or is there another hidden agenda? For a while. The major media also have different opinions and have no conclusion on the incident itself.
at the same time. Over the past decades, Filipino fishermen have harassed fishermen from the Pannu Islands in the waters near Crescent Island, as well as maliciously ramming and sinking New Zealand fishing boats on several occasions. Includes an oral account from the son of a fisherman who died. Including relevant documentary records, a 50-minute documentary was made and released on a social platform. Immediately afterwards, the news push panel of Future Man 1.0 reprinted the video and introduced it to the world with a catchy title.
"Pirates or Fishermen?" A detailed account of the misdeeds of Filipino fishermen with the connivance of the government"
This video has only been online for one day and has already received over 10 million views. Other online media also followed suit and reprinted it, causing a huge stir in international public opinion. Almost all public opinions sympathetic to the Philippines have turned to criticizing the Philippines' crimes.
The Philippine government immediately jumped out and accused Futureman International of being untrue and exaggerated in its report on this matter, which violated the neutrality of the news media and could not favor New Zealand because of its engineering cooperation relationship with New Zealand.
At the same time, the Philippine spokesperson also asked Futureman International to immediately delete the relevant remarks and apologize to the Filipinos.
Will Jiang Chen apologize to a group of monkeys? Obviously not.
Futureman International issued a statement that the video does not represent the company's position. Futureman 1.0 only reproduces the video, not the publisher of the video, and does not assume any responsibility. At the same time, Future People International refused to delete the video and apologize in the name of freedom of speech.
Although this move aroused strong dissatisfaction in the Philippines, it won collective applause from outsiders - the Chinese people.
It is precisely because of this that Futureman Technology, instead of suffering losses, has actually benefited a lot.
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"Are you pigs all eating shit?" Aquino angrily pointed at the Philippine Foreign Minister and cursed, "How many times have I said, be tough! We must be tough and put pressure on their government! We have An army of 120,000 is 11 times larger than their total population!”
"But Mr. President... our diplomatic rhetoric has been tough enough, and some statements can even be regarded as threats of war, but they don't seem to be afraid of us." The Minister of Foreign Affairs said with a wry smile.
Aquino was stunned for a moment.
"It seems that it is necessary to give them a beating. These monkeys in the Pacific simply don't know the heights of the world." The Minister of Defense suggested fiercely.
"But the United States asked us to exercise restraint on this issue. Excessive pressure may cause neutral countries to fall into China's camp." The foreign minister raised objections.
"But if we do nothing, our people will not be satisfied," the defense minister argued.
Listening to the bickering among cabinet members, Aquino fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, a fierce look flashed in his eyes.
"Mercenary... Mercenary, right? Very good."
He already had an idea in mind. (.)
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