If the permanent members of the security council didn’t have veto powers they A: wouldn’t have joined, and B: would go “you and what army?” if people voted to force them to do something.

It’s just a way to keep a high level discussion going.

I don’t think that’s an accurate representation.

Covid happened. It hit most countries like that. Now he’s trying to balance things again, against intense opposition

The root cause is not recent. The french have been overspending for decades. Look at the debt to GDP ratio over time.

France has had two choices for a long time; continue overspending or balance the budget. They keep picking overspending.

Like Macron or not, but at least he’s trying to balance the budget. If he ends up failing, they’ll have to try again later, from a worse starting point, or over time descend into economic collapse

There’s no free lunch

They are enemy psy op actors, whether they know it or not

I imagine the thought process is that it’s easier to do it now during the chaos than later when there’s some form of new government and organised defence.

They’re taking out capabilities so a new, possibly not Israel friendly government, won’t have them, and thus will be less of a threat.

It doesn’t make it ok of course.

Or run the raid 5 or 6 separately, with hardware raid or mdadm

Even for simple mirroring there’s an argument to be made for running it separately from btrfs using mdadm. You do lose the benefit of btrfs being able to automatically pick the valid copy on localised corruption, but the admin tools are easier to use and more proven in a case of full disk failure, and if you run an encrypted block device you need to encrypt half as much stuff.