What? No. Garcia has nothing to do with any of this.
Wait, so up there it looks like the actual truth is not "Some years later I tried again but you could no longer make changes IIRC. Just checked, info still missing." but in fact that the exact information is already in the article.
Glad we had this talk lol. I mean it's a pretty trivial thing to get upset about even if it were true, I can somewhat believe that some random person might have reverted your edits for bad reasons, but I am wholly unsurprised to learn that there was no grand conspiracy and the information in the article has been corrected now even though you specifically said that it wasn't.
It strongly looks like you're making things up lol
It is trivial to check what changes someone did or didn't make 10 years ago on Wikipedia, if you know which page of Wikipedia it was on. Which page was it on?
What does the article mean “Juniper Networks, despite being a “Good Article”, is also mostly PR”?
It's all part of their various horseshit attempt at making something which is pretty simple an innocuous into something that it isn't.
Within the last few days, it looks like someone raised the issue on this guy's page, the arbitration committee is getting in touch with him, and he's saying he'll get back to them. Presumably there's a minor conflict of interest and they'll look over the article and make sure he didn't do anything slanty to them and then tell him to stay away from COI-like articles in the future.
There's absolutely nothing sinister here, and they are stringing together a bunch of misleading stuff (like "mostly PR") to make a mountain out of a molehill to discredit Wikipedia. I've noticed a bunch of people doing this, presumably there is some organized campaign which actually is sinister in the way they're implying WP is, that is trying to make people think badly of them.
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EU to weigh new Russia sanctions, security guarantees for Ukraine at Luxembourg Summit
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Gifted musician and teacher Olena Kohut killed in Russian missile strike on Sumy
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'Don't come, there's nothing good here' — Chinese soldiers warn against following Russian propaganda to fight in Ukraine
(kyivindependent.com)
The Ukrainian military recently captured two Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia. Kyiv subsequently released data on a total of 163 Chinese nationals identified by Ukrainian intelligence as fighting for Moscow.
"We are collecting information, we believe that there are many more," President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on April 9.
The president also accused Chinese authorities of supporting or at least not obstructing the recruitment of its citizens to fight against Ukraine.
"Beijing knows about this. Russians distribute advertising videos about recruitment through Chinese social networks," Zelensky said.
Russia has recruited international fighters since the outset of the war, as has Ukraine. But the prevalence of Chinese mercenaries fighting for Russia drew comparisons to North Korean soldiers, who came en masse to aid Russia's retaking of Kursk Oblast, with the blessing from Pyongyang.
The first Chinese fighters identified by Ukrainian intelligence arrived in Russia in the summer of 2023, per documents reviewed by the Kyiv Independent.
One post on Douyin, China's local version of TikTok, dates back to July 2022, shows a purported recent recruit excitedly preparing to be picked up from the Beijing airport on Sept. 1 of that year. "Your daily salary will be 30,000 Russian rubles. Welcome to Russia!" claims the new "recruit," citing a figure that is an absurdly high $350 per day.
Videos well into the current year show ads inviting Chinese men to come fight for Russia. Other videos show purportedly Chinese recruiters incentivizing people to join Russia's Armed Forces in return for high salaries.
One such video promises 2.3 million rubles ($27,000) as a sign up bonus, and 5.2 million rubles ($62,000) per year to those willing to fight.
Other videos propagandizing to potential Chinese recruits on social media are simple translations of Russian advertising, with slogans like: "You're a man. Be one."
The accounts of Chinese soldiers who have ended up in the worst parts of the Russian line tell a radically different message.
"Don't come. There is nothing good here to come to," said Chongqing's Zhao Rui, per local media. By December, Zhao had become the first Chinese soldier to die, reportedly falling to a Ukrainian drone.
In a documentary released in March, one Chinese assault soldier identified as "Macron" shared his experiences with journalist Chai Jing.
Screenshots from the "Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia" documnetary. (YouTube)
"I realized I might die here someday, so I decided to share some real experiences," said Macron, identifying his location as near Bakhmut. "Since Chinese people haven't been at war in a long time, I wanted to show what a regular soldier, especially a foreign one, really goes through in war."
Among grievances is endemic racism among Russian divisions against non-white recruits.
"There has been severe racial discrimination since training camp, discriminating against Black people, Arabs, and Chinese," Macron said.
That racism is reflected in the accounts of many Chinese soldiers tricked into going into the most dangerous parts of the line. Along with many other foreign mercenaries, Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia have found themselves at the tip of highly dangerous assault groups.
"Russia is reluctant to send their regular Slavic troops to charge on the front lines, so they spend money to recruit mercenaries for front-line charges, where survival chances are extremely low."
Russian military bloggers promoted the efforts of one, callsign "Li," to learn Russian at the start of 2024, shortly after he joined the international brigade — Pyatnashka. Pyatnashka would be one of the first units sent to fight off a Ukrainian incursion in Kursk Oblast.
Many other Chinese recruits have found themselves in "Storm-Z" units. State-funded mercenary group Wagner initially recruited these units from Russian prisons, using them to sustain some of the highest casualty rates of the war while minimizing political blowback from the Russian public.
Reports from August show two young Chinese recruits joining Storm-Z units only to die on their first mission.
"Russia is reluctant to send their regular Slavic troops to charge on the front lines, so they spend money to recruit mercenaries for front-line charges, where survival chances are extremely low," the report says.
The bodies of killed Russian soldiers in the Bakhmut area in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on June 29, 2024 (Pablo Miranzo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Those reports put the payout that Russia owes to the families of Chinese soldiers killed in action at 400,000 renminbi, or just over $50,000. However, those payments face frequent delays.
Moreover, the Russian military has apparently refused to release many of the Chinese soldiers at the end of their signed contracts.
"We'll terminate your contract only after winning the war," one Chinese fighter quoted his commander's refusal to let him out of service while speaking to blogger Lei's Real World in July.
"Two of my men deserted. They are making every effort to capture them. If they are caught, they won't live for sure. So I can only wish the two deserters good luck."
Some of them would, some would not.
Such defeat can be attributed to various shortfall in simulation capabilities and design that significantly hindered Blue Force fighting and command capabilities. Examples include: a time lag in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information being forwarded to the Blueforce by the simulation master, various glitches that limited Blue ships point-defense capabilities and error in the simulation which placed ships unrealistically close to Red assets.
It's apparently a little more controversial than that. There's a whole community of "truthers" that are committed to debunking the idea that Van Riper's tactics would have worked in the real world and accuse him of gaming the simulation and ruining the productiveness of this massive exercise by, more or less, using exploits. On the other hand, there are some other military people who say more or less that his job wasn't to make an objectively productive exercise, it was to win, and at that he excelled and fair's fair. The truth is probably a mixture of both, innovative tactics alongside semi-exploits that aren't applicable to the real world.
In US terms, 2 battalions would be around 1,000-2,000 soldiers. IDK if the Ukrainian terminology is the same.
They said they took out 2 Russian battalions, which would mean that if every place they were outnumbered 10-to-1 it would be maybe 2,000 Russians and 200 Ukrainians in the battle. Something like that. But they only said they were outnumbered like that in some areas, not the whole region.
Believe it or not, some people think that the press’s job is to tell the truth about what’s going on, and people can deal with it however they deal with it.
He did. And, the last Iran nuclear deal was one of the only really big good things the US has ever done in the Middle East. I literally can’t think of another one off the top of my head.
Russia to mediate because everyone else they called just scoffed over the phone and hung up.
The magnitude of the stuff Trump has squandered is straight-up unfathomable.
I know it's only vaguely related, since they're not US-funded, but at some point I think it would be hilarious (in a particularly poignant way) if the Lemmy developers' funding got cut off by the process of the explicitly rabid governments they are fans of finally succeeding at destabilizing the friendly Western countries where they live to the point that NLNet wasn't funded anymore. As I understand it, NLNet is already facing some headwinds because the friendly liberal elements in EU politics are getting replaced by the same kind of "fuck everyone just give money to rich people and also anyone who disagrees with me dies" elements that Russia likes to give money and social-media-shilling campaigns to support.
Surely Russia and China will jump to the front and fund basic infrastructure work for the good of everyone, if that happened. They could count on it happening, instead of having to get jobs.
Surely.
Hm. Maybe. I feel like it's unlikely that he will immediately be hanging out with the highest of the gang leaders and the gang leaders will then proceed to relay to them details of their corrupt agreements with the president of their own country as well as the United States. I mean I feel like most people who are most privy to the details of the whole corrupt mess are already out of prison and not in a position to be hanging with any of the new fish.
I do see some of what you mean, there will surely be some rumors about what's going on inside the prison. And yes having the guy in a position to be telling first-hand accounts to an eager media about exactly how horrific is what's happening inside is not something that either Trump or Bukele want.