Turbulence
Preface
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Galatians: 6:9
You know the news cycle moves so insanely fast these days even I have a hard time keeping up with it and I read multiple stories throughout the day. I have maintained this pace seven days a week for the past five years.
Granted, I have a real passion for doing it, or perhaps more specifically, I feel compelled to derive the true signal from the media of what’s going on in the world so that I can do the best that I can here to communicate that understanding directly to you.
With all of that being said there’s a ton of things happening here all at once. As Steve Bannon would say we’re facing a convergence of crises looking ahead here for the coming months.
After all, when looking at a quick breakdown of what we’re dealing with we’re looking at the fights occurring within the Republican party concerning President Trump’s agenda with the Big Beautiful Bill. Now along with this we’ve got to deal with how this will play out with a very public and recent fallout between President Trump and Elon Musk.
Additionally we’re also having to consider what kind of major fallout will occur with the war between Russia and Ukraine after Ukraine’s recent drone attack deep into Russian territory which wiped out a respectable level of Russian bombers.
Furthermore, the CCP is unquestionably stirring the pot with all of this as well. Given the fact that they just stole the election in South Korea they seem to be ramping up their aggression towards the U.S. as they continue to threaten Taiwan. An even crazier reality is that there are signals coming out of Beijing regarding the internal fighting of the CCP, and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that suggests they could be behaving like they’re on the cusp of a leadership and regime change.
If this is the case this would also result in the CCP under Xi Jinping likely being more aggressive in his approach to orchestrate a kinetic attack against Taiwan. He would probably do this in order to keep the PLA tied up with that to distract them from their grievances associated with him. This would also take the pressure off of himself by redirecting the military’s focus to deal with a kinetic military campaign of war.
As if all of this isn’t enough we’re still staring down at the reality of the coming rise of AI which is seemingly only picking up more and more momentum. The potential problems associated with AI are numerous. It’s also a fact that there are many young people that have already invested a lot of money, time, and energy into a career path that will essentially not even exist in the next five years because of AI.
Oh and in addition to this the United States and the CCP are essentially in an arms race in regards to the development of AI.
You know with all of this going on it got me thinking about something. I have had some students over the years who were experienced pilots. I always enjoyed talking to them about airplanes and the very cool fighter jets whenever we got a chance to examine the subject.
I’ve flown on commercial airliners a few times in my life, but I’ve never been one to regularly travel by means of flying on a regular basis. I say this only to say that my experience with flying is somewhat limited even though I’ve been on some long flights in the past.
However, in my past conversations with my students I learned that when looking at aviation the one thing that pilots recognize and understand very well is that the conditions of flying can change in an instant due to random air flow.
This is because the air is not stationary and is a constantly moving stream of molecules. Because of this movement, at times, an aircraft can encounter some irregular atmospheric shifts and when this happens the aircraft, along with the people and objects within, can face a bumpy ride. This bumpy experience is what is known as turbulence.
However, even though this is the case with commercial airliners, this can be a very different experience when looking at how much this turbulence impacts a different kind of aircraft such as a fighter jet.
You see fighter jets also experience turbulence, but the experience can be very different depending on a number of factors. Given this, there's a certain characteristic with fighter jets that I want to focus on that actually helps the fighter jet to reduce its exposure to turbulence.
The key difference that’s involved with shortening the amount of exposure to turbulence involving the fighter jet compared to a big commercial airliner is speed. That’s right, the faster the aircraft is moving the sooner it can push right on through to the other side of the turbulence in order to get into the clear airspace for a smooth ride.
Because of this I believe if we shift our thinking and take the viewpoint that the numerous problems that are awaiting the country represent the turbulent airflow and that the slow moving bulky commercial airliner represents the Washington D.C. establishment, then the fast moving President Trump represents the fighter jet.
Now I’ve established that there’s a converging set of crises and it always feels like the country is hitting them head on while many more are awaiting us out on the horizon as I mentioned at the beginning of this article. Because of this you might ask why it is that we’re facing all of the turbulence that we’re facing if President Trump is representative of that fighter jet that’s supposed to blow through the rough air and to get us on the other side to some smooth airflow.
The fact is that we are hitting a ton of turbulence because the traditional function of the Washington D.C. establishment and every president since Ronald Reagan has created nothing, but a ton of problems that the country is now having to face head on. However, now we have a leader that’s strong enough and willing to face those very problems. President Trump is facing those problems directly and he’s moving very fast to face them.
Just to break this down into some specific examples we are hitting the turbulent airflows that represent the sovereign debt crisis that Joe Biden created during his time in office, we’ve already hit the turbulent airflow of shutting down the border invasions, and now we’re hitting the turbulent airflow of the deportation of illegal migrant terrorists.
President Trump has been moving fast to get the executive orders in place and he has rapidly secured some major financial deals with the world through the implementation of his tariffs in order to attack the financial crisis of the country.
