The sequencing of events set up by trump team, getting Ukraine to agree first, benefits putin - while he delays answering he can still initiate some new offensive, but if Ukraine now makes any big surprise move that starts regaining territory, Russia can play the ‘agree to ceasefire’ card to stop it.
Si j’ai bien compris - on vol de la chêne, en Ardenne, pour le transporter via Belgique à destination de Chine - donc problème de coordination contre crime transfrontalier ? Mais ou sont tous ces chasseurs nationalistes, ils ne voient rien ?
Belgian here, and I think all such specific options are wrong.
Any big equipment ordered now would quickly become obsolete, look how drones (both air and sea) evolved just during the last couple of years. Next problem may be countering crawling robots controlled by AI. Meanwhile heavy expensive stuff carrying people becomes relatively inefficient. So what any country needs is multifunctional adaptable factories and teams - capacity to make new equipment quickly, as needed.
The geopolitical situation will also evolve long before any equipment ordered now is ready. And how that evolves depends especially on defence against misinformation. Addressing gaps opened in development aid also influences the geopolitical balance. A smaller ‘diplomatic’ country might play an outsized role in these domains.
If military threats can be reduced, multifunctional factories should be capable to make technically-related equipment to tackle multiple non-military threats including “natural” disasters - such as floods or forest-fires, there was already discussion of a need for european rapid-response teams for such purposes. Build capacity for manufacturing both swords and ploughshares together. This could also gain more sustained cross-society support, and keep personnel actively trained. Building multifunctional capacity rather than stockpiles also avoids driving future leaders to enter conflicts to justify the “investment” (arguably a factor behind this war of Russia, as well as earlier US-led wars).
As for paying US for F35s (which keep whizzing above my head, my dog chases them away…) - crazy waste of money, if as demonstrated last week any mad president in Washington can just switch them off (or refuse to update codes, software etc. - same effect in just a few weeks).
Well it’s extremely predictable - only dependent on cycles of the moon (and sun). In a specific location there are slack periods every six hours or so, but the phase of the waves shifts as you move along the coast a bit (not too far, on the scale of France) so these could be smoothed out by combining power from multiple locations.