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Flight route from San Francisco to Dubai. Two maps, two perspectives. (i.postimg.cc)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

If you changed the destination to NY instead of San Francisco, it's more or less a straight line. Thenothe way around is through Alaska.

Also why bothe the regions have had massive defence value for the USA and have historical had a lot of military bases there