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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 183 days ago
The US could issue a notice of an Alert Area where military operations are in progress AND could coordinate with Dutch airspace authorities.

US AWACS has the capability to identify civilian aircraft and route military traffic well clear of civil traffic.

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They could also not invade a country that did nothing to attack them, but I guess that’s asking too much.
Venezuela invaded the US by not selling the US oil at US terms
We can arrest Maduro for drug trafficking and then pardon him later for being set up by Biden.
Slap him with sanctions for human rights violations then drop them and invite him to the white house.
A sizable chunk of the world is currently considered hazardous for commercial aviation.[1] Ops.group maintains a quick reference map. It's bad.

[1] https://safeairspace.net/

That map projection is the worst choice possible. It makes Russia appear much larger in relation to e. g. Africa than it really is.
> That map projection is the worst choice possible.

For navigation, the Mercator projection is useful, because a straight line on the chart is where you go with a constant bearing. Aerial navigation is waypoint/bearing/waypoint/bearing. So most aviation maps are Mercator.

Yeah that's not for TNCF (curacao) but venezuela (SVZM) airspace. So that's approximately zero excuse.