Helicopter View

one of the biggest things I learned was to use a technique called the Helicopter View.   It's a good analogy for dealing with problems and whereas, as an engineer I was used to diving in and fixing a problem in a sort of single minded macro view, the helicopter view allowed me to tackle problems completely differently and look at things in a whole new way.  

It pulls away from the immediacy of the problem and allows you to think about the totality of things.  I use it a lot as it allows me to view things in the world somewhat differently to others.  A global view of the world and what is going on soon wakes you up to the idiocy that is happening here in the UK.  Our weak feeble minded politicians have been navel gazing for far too long and are under the impression that they have a big say at the table.  I'm sure the world looks on in awe (oops that was a bit sarcastic).  I see our people saying great things and demanding particular actions and yet, no one with any sense would take their bleating realistically.

The UK no longer has the influence it thinks it does.  Frankly we've given away any authority we had at the alter of woke ideology and our financial acumen is in dispute.  Our headlong leadership (opp more sarcasm) into net zero is also showing what a bunch of clowns we are.  Continuing to push the awful war in Ukraine, that has taken 1.6 Million lives so far and then to poke the Bear further by making them a NATO country in direct opposition to what you said you'd do proves you a liar and not someone who keeps their word, as well all know now, the present incumbents doubled down on the previous pile of excrement and none of them have told the truth.

So helicopter this if you can, trace the money, trace the reasons why and look at the overall world picture.  No one is coming out of this covered in glory at all.  Higher fuel prices,  huge debt, lives lost, trade diverted, inflation (wait until you see that work through). Huge swings in prosperity away from Europe and the West.  Go look at the BRICS economies, look at how they control almost everything except aerospace at the moment.  Russian sanctions impacted European economies but look at India, China and their trading partners. Get up in that helicopter and go and look at the power these countries have.

I was impressed that certain goods are banned or attract tariffs.  They just get around these and the BRICS markets are bigger than Europe and North America and so they don't need to trade with us.  What's the point of trying to sell say a few hundred cars to the UK when they can sell tens of thousands to Brazil?  

I can go on about this but we need to raise our eyes and look beyond our puny economic woes and see where the next threats are coming from.  Get up to high altitude and look for yourself.