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Originally Posted by flysnoopy76 (Post 3377738)

To answer the original question in this thread, yes every professional pilot in this country should be concerned for their future.
Oil is projected to reach northward of 120, inflation projected to continue rising hampering peoples ability to buy tickets for vacations, business and international flying still suppressed from Covid, and a conflict in Europe, with the chance of continued escalation, and now right on que China making noise about Taiwan.
I would be very surprised if the unicorns and rainbows market for pilots lasts much longer, it never does anyhow.

This is the main point of this thread, really. At the end of the day, nobody knows what the effects of all this back and forth is going to be, but you can say with certainty it won't be anything good, and probably very bad. What happens with the airline industry will probably be directly proportional to how energy prices go, at least in the next 6 months to the next couple years.

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Originally Posted by emersonbiguns (Post 3377869)

It's Europe, not Asia....

It is, well the second only slightly less well known blunder then...

Virologists and constitutional lawyers one week, international relations experts and military strategists the next.

Is there anything the Air Line Pilot cannot master?

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Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon (Post 3377927)

Virologists and constitutional lawyers one week, international relations experts and military strategists the next.

Is there anything the Air Line Pilot cannot master?

Humility? :p

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Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon (Post 3377927)

Virologists and constitutional lawyers one week, international relations experts and military strategists the next.

Is there anything the Air Line Pilot cannot master?

Actually... nothing in this thread is really out to lunch. I spent decades in the mil, started in the cold war and was trained accordingly, and spent the last decade doing major war plans (the ones we tend to talk about here).

https://mobile.twitter.com/bnonews/status/1496683463885402114

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1496684236329340928?s=20&t=7H-BFHUGakeBiwOZYsOsPw

Here we go.

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Originally Posted by Andy (Post 3377554)

The best trained and equipped military is useless when there is incompetent leadership. I've lived through my share of good and bad leadership in the military and the poorly executed Afghanistan withdrawal put the world on notice that the US has idiots telling the military what to do. I am very confident that there were more than a few field grade officers in the five sided puzzle palace strongly advising that there was a plan that should be employed for the withdrawal. They were obviously ignored.
The rest of the world has seen this and other military responses over the past year and the Ukraine situation is due to our poor execution.
The odds of US leadership becoming more competent in military and diplomatic actions in the next 3 years is miniscule and for that reason it would be best if the US military disengaged from all foreign engagement until we have competent leadership at the helm.

The withdrawal would've been a CENTCOM plan - in Tampa, not DC. More than likely it was led by ARCENT/3rd Army. I've worked as a planner in both organizations and IMO you're making a lot of bad assumptions and judgements. I worked NEO & ISIL planning with ARCENT G(J)3-5 and have a WAY better understanding of that culture than you can imagine.

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Originally Posted by chihuahua (Post 3376815)

If Putin wanted the whole thing, he'd have taken it already..

He's taking it now.

$150 a Barrel by early next week. If not sooner.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/oil-prices-jump-as-russia-launches-attack-on-ukraine.html

We will be parking aircraft shortly. The pilot shortage will be shut off like a 747 fire Bomber dumping on a campfire.