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Africa North
Turkey Reduces Salaries of Mercenaries from $2,000 to $600
2020-09-09
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Posted by:Fred

#15  .."our cuts just got bigger"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-09-09 20:21  

#14  It's a fixed budget; the fewer of you there are, the more the live ones will make.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-09-09 17:38  

#13  At this point, I wonder if the US should clandestinely pay these to turn coats and start shooting Turks? Might be the most cost effective move. And it would conveniently reduce the numbers of baddies, and also of mercs of that sort.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-09-09 17:07  

#12  /\#10 ditto. A classic plan was to move troublemakers to another province, settle them on the local peoples' land (i.e. steal it), and tell them to "keep things orderly". You tend to be loyal when the natives want to come down from the hills and kill you.
Posted by: magpie   2020-09-09 16:02  

#11  They can look at the bright side - think about all those taxes they're gonna save on!
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-09 12:29  

#10  ..unless they're far away, exiled in some distant land. However, it will cut down on further recruitment of viable replacements. Cannon fodder is cheap. See - Seattle, Portland, et al
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-09-09 10:41  

#9  Historically, it is a really bad idea to not pay your mercenaries.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-09-09 10:03  

#8  Yippy did get these miscreants out of his neighborhood, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-09-09 09:36  

#7  This is per month, I presume?
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-09 07:59  

#6  For $600 you could pay jihadis to fight each other, it would be a lot cheaper and safer than using the military.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-09-09 07:44  

#5  IIRC they weren't ever receiving the promised wages, if they were paid at all
Posted by: Frank G   2020-09-09 07:31  

#4  Peter Falk paying a departing truckload of his Chinese workers with Amex card application slips, 'No need to thank me boys.'
Posted by: Cesare   2020-09-09 07:00  

#3  ^The Sultan haven't studied Italian history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-09-09 06:25  

#2  Like H1B visa hires, the mercs probably don't have much leverage, far from home with nowhere tp go. Except maybe over to the other side...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-09-09 06:20  

#1  ...Oh, that's gonna go over real well.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2020-09-09 04:18  

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