User talk:Delvilleit

Questions from Delvilleit:
Delvilleit: The entry on the war in Ukraine in the Italian language version was published on March 15, 2022, while the other language versions had already been online for almost a month.

Delvilleit: Do you have any idea how this could have happened?
 * I do not follow the Italian edition. You may not have enough editors. While working on the English edition's United States Army Futures Command beginning in 2018, it became apparent to me that conflict is the basic state of human affairs, which explains why peace is always fleeting, and always eludes our grasp.

Delvilleit: What was Wikipedia's most important benefit/utility in building the entry on the war in Ukraine in your opinion?
 * I can concentrate on materiel, while others work on parallel topics. We have to adhere to the rules of the encylopedia, which serves to constrain unruly editors.

Delvilleit: Do you think the entry on the war in Ukraine was well constructed?
 * What you are seeing is the product of many minds, working in parallel. In 2021 I contributed to what is now called the Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and did not have to think about competing issues. I put a lot of effort into the Power projection section, which informed the article on the Prelude to Ukraine's invasion by Russia.

Delvilleit: What were the most important critical issues related to covering this conflict on Wikipedia?
 * Europeans are under the American power umbrella, which shields them from thinking about their self-defense. This blinds them; see EU battlegroup as an illustration. The proponent for CSDP, Josep Borrell does not have a military background. It shows.
 * Europeans are far from building up their capabilities; their concepts are 10 times too small (for example in the size of their army), and they re-invent capabilities which are already well-developed by other nations; hence they have fallen behind in materiel, when they could cooperate instead. They could instead just purchase what they need from existing vendors and build on the work of others.
 * There is a difference between being prepared for war, and being warlike. Bullies will notice who is unprepared for war. For example, China is warlike, but is far from being prepared for war; this is a recipe for their future defeat, should they be unwise enough to start wars.
 * When an army is the most developed institution in a civilization, one gets wars; the Roman legions realized their power, and overthrew the emperor. As a sociologist, I think it should be apparent to you that civilizations need to build up their cooperative institutions, rather than their combative institutions, to balance out the army's powers. The institutions of Russia are your cautionary example.
 * The theory of war and its economic description can be found in von Neumann's game theory; see conflict continuum. --Ancheta Wis   (talk  &#124; contribs) 13:13, 8 November 2022 (UTC)