11/6/2025
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
Fog AKA visible aerosol - that’s what I am seeing this AM. It could be advection fog or could be radiation fog. Time to consult an atmospheric scientist.
SoW, I encourage you to contact Henry Harteveldt, airline industry analyst & president of Atmosphere Research Group, so he can advise you about this FAA reduction. He was referenced in the AP today because he’s worried that you didn’t give the airlines enough warning, & things are going to be a mess at the 40 airports being required to cut back 10% of their flights. He speculates that you are using aviation safety “to force the two sides in Washington back to the negotiating table to resolve the shutdown.” That’s not true, is it?
OoM, in reporting on your convening of the C5+1 at the WH today, the Diplomat notes your approach to diplomacy may be “shirfting.” This observation grew from the fact that you preference for bilateral negotiations may be changing because your meeting today includes 5 leaders of “–stans” rather than just 1.
Since I know so little about any of the “–stans" I looked up Uzbekistan. I’ve always wondered about it since it has my nickname, Becki, in it. Unfortunately, it’s 37.6 million people have few freedoms. Up until recently many were forced to pick cotton during the harvest. Its other noteworthy features include its status as one of only two landlocked countries in the world & the environmental degradation of its Aral Sea due to excessive irrigation of cotton fields. If you are able to find companies willing to risk investing in Uzbekistan, please require that President Shavkat Mirziyoyev redouble his efforts to promote democracy there. Please don’t sell them any weapons! WINTA!
According to the AP, you are “hosting Central Asian leaders to get around China on rare earth metals.” Since that’s a priority for you, keep in mind that Burma also has them & China is getting all of them right now. If you can make a deal with MAH to stop bombing his citizens, we might get access to the dysprosium & terbium in northern Kachin & eastern Shan States. If we do, let’s be sure to mine it in a sustainable fashion.
BYBS,
