MBFlyerfan-

You, my friend, are also mistaken about thrust.

Think about how ground-based vehicles move. They basically force the ground beneath them to move backwards, relative to the vehicle. How do they do this? By applying power to the wheels in contact with the ground.

If there's a really strong headwind, can the vehicle still move forward? The answer, of course, is yes, until the drag on the vehicle is so great that the engine can no longer move the vehicle forward. Unfortunately, on ground-based vehicles, the forces of both friction (traction) and drag affect forward motion.

In an airplane, drag is the only thing that can prevent forward motion. (When an airplane is in the air, it's not touching the ground. The plane doesn't care what the ground is doing, it only cares about the air it's traveling through is doing.)