The FAA declared “national defense airspace” over El Paso, grounded every flight for 10 days, and authorized deadly force against any aircraft that enters the zone without offering an explanation.
The FAA declared “national defense airspace” over El Paso, grounded every flight for 10 days, and authorized deadly force against any aircraft that enters the zone without offering an explanation.
That designation hasn’t been used domestically since September 11, 2001, when the country was under active attack. This time, the federal government shut down a major American city’s airspace and pointed weapons at the sky.
More than half the country is already exhausted by Trump’s personal army of federal agents and his loyalist’s capricious, contradictory policies. This is exactly the kind of system shock that America and Americans don’t need during a time when Trump has threatened NATO, other allies, and holds another country’s president in a New York jail cell.
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