Bodyguards maybe if they’re in the US.

In other countries corps have employed armed men to achieve goals or protect property. But I haven’t seen any evidence of a mega corp employing a literal PMC on scale. Maybe I didn’t search well enough.

Don’t worry about PMCs until a mega corp has one.

Out of millions upon millions of kids?

I bet more kids die from choking than are kidnapped by strangers each year, but I’m too lazy to look it up

In their defense, predicting unforced errors is impossible. They looked at the available info and rightly presumed a competent leader would have captured Bakhmut. Alas, Wagner lacks such competence.

And falsified data is usually a “too good to be true” kind of deal

Ideally, you use up all the resources of your geopolitical foes even if it enriches them and save your nations resources for later

Affluent parents do this on the regular

Misinformation as a tool is meant to obfuscate the truth.

They know no one believes them, but it doesn’t matter because the terrible truth will be forever unknown. Over time, their narrative will be what’s written down in their books and then it becomes true with no one willing to counter it.

It’s true!

People assume those who are cowed by violence are cowards or weak, but in reality they’re just hoping the bully goes away without interaction. But when the bullies keep pressing, people will fight back, figuratively of course.