The US is deploying the world’s largest warship towards the Caribbean, marking a major escalation in its military build-up in the region.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, which can carry up to 90 aircraft, to move from the Mediterranean on Friday.
The US has been increasing its military presence in the Caribbean in recent weeks, sending other warships, a nuclear submarine as well as F-35 aircraft in what it says is a campaign to target drug traffickers.
- Start a meaningless war.
- Attempt to cancel the midterms.
- Try to say that the war is a reason to suspend the 2028 election.
- Die before his next birthday…
I hope that Venuzaelan fishermen sinks it, Italian frogman style. That hardware has no business being there, especially when commanded by Trump.
Putting Corporal bone spurs in charge of our military after he called dead servicemen “suckers” and “losers” is itself an outrage. But republicans never cared about the people serving in the military anyway. They think of them as the hotel staff to be abused. Such an inexusably disappointing group of people.
And he was “this” close to win a Nobel Peace Prize… Well, it would be more funny, if he had won it and start a war the next month.
What could possibly be gained by this? I’d like to point out that the US government is still shut down because congress hasn’t managed to pass a budget.
you mean shut down until everyone forgets about the epstein files?
If they finally do disclose his pedophile rape crimes in there, then the israelis presumably will have less material to extort him with. And he’ll lose huge amounts of support. You’d think.
Well, that’s held up by Johnson refusing to do his job and swear someone in. It’s still coming, whether the government reopens or not - the shutdown would be a delay tactic on the FBI side
That money would be better spent on social programs to help people with drug problems so they no longer buy drugs, but I guess that’s not as fun as blowing up random boats.
USA - the pussy state, that won’t help with the worlds true enemies, but instead bully the smaller nations to the south, that never was a threat. As always, they wanna bomb the shit out of poor countries, and then whine about a lot of immigrants after wards.
For a man that doesn’t like war, he’s very close to creating a war, hey?
It won’t be a war. They’re baiting out a response and might respond to that with a decapitation strike… There’s no shot this turns into a war, it’s Venezuela
Realistically, they’re just creating instability with this while unleashing the CIA to do their things
Ok, massacre or genocide?
Collateral murder. Not a massacre, not a genocide, just random death from afar
Call it what you like, the point is, he is allegedly against this shit. I suppose whoever is really pulling the strings isn’t against it.
Which then leads to the convenient excuse of suspending the 2026 midterms
Hey, it worked wonders for Netanyahu. I’m sure they’ve discussed it.
This war will probably be more one sided than a war against most other countries. They can probably wipe out most Venezuela’s military equipment fairly quickly, while Maduro is hated enough by various militias that the US might not need to risk too many ground troops. It’s probably the easiest war the US could wage right now. Killing Maduro is the only part that could be difficult, but it could also not be.
Not saying you are wrong but I there is always the trees speak Spanish situation with insurgents.
Not meaning to be awkward, but either way it’s still a war…
Trump wants a war, but he prefers those who can’t well fight back. It being so one sided probably means it’ll cost a ton more Venezuelan lives. It’s not just about Maduro, but terrorizing Latin America by brutalizing countries that don’t let American companies take their oil wealth. Venezuela is the perfect target for Trump in so many ways, and he’ll be sure to make an example of them.
No, no, it’ll be a “special military operation”…
Throw him that peace prize! Ugh
all this to blow up impoverished fishermen. The cruelty of the Us empire knows no bounds.
I mean they are probably drug boats. But that isn’t really the point. It’s that he/we are unilaterally imposing a death sentence on another country’s citzens when the penalty in our country isn’t even death for these crimes. And, no trial, no transparency. Even if they are 100% guilty, it would still be wrong.
I mean the worse part is they are not even drug boats. It’s impossible for those little boats to ever reach America, they need what 12? 20 fuel stops to get there? I have an uncle that used to be a fishermen and he used to take me out for some ceviche and oysters on the weekends. Those boats cannot get anywhere near those drugs are supposedly “distributed” What pisses me off the most is: the people that go out and fish like that are usually the poorest and most vulnerable, and they get presented as drug dealers by these disgusting nazi shit, they get anonymized, blow to pieces, nobody thinks about their families or friends. If you are brown you are under the boot of the disgusting American Nazis and nobody can help you! We need someone or something to put a stop to these fucking scum
In international waters to boot.
For now…
Anything to distract from the Epstein Files.
And the Republican government shutdown, now.
The government has to stay shut down, otherwise they will vote to release the Epstein Files. The pedophile needs a war before that happens!
Isn’t this the exact thing that Trump has been criticizing China for doing?
Uh… Trump doesn’t really criticize China on that, he’s made it clear he understands/believes they’re just representing their interests
Trump has been pretty consistent in thinking countries should be able to do this sort of thing, at least before his brain totally melted
Nobody ever accused him of being consistent.
Holy crap, how much does it cost to bring that thing over here from the Mediterranean alone?
About $50 million dollars US. That is kind of deceptive, though. The USS Ford costs about 7 million a day to operate, but this is a continuing cost, as she is on current active deployment, that cost is there, no matter the zone of responsibility. A carrier also does not travel alone, but with a strike group. This varries according to mission, but she will probably transit with at least three Arleigh Burke destroyers and likely a nuke powered Ticonderoga Cruiser and Virginia class submarine. The tender and replenishment ships will probably stay with The 6th fleet, based in Italy. It will also be likely that another carrier and replacement ships will fill in at 6th fleet for the Ford strike group. A good guess is that this whole thing will cost upwards of $75 million a week, depending on work load and ammunition expenditures.
Like you said, if if wasn’t here, it’d be sailing around somewhere else. They spend time doing patrols and exercises. If the Navy only left port in the event of actual war, they’d be severely inexperienced and untested, which would be an even bigger waste of money.
Trump is looking for Jack Sparrow.
Ah, but you have heard of the worst president ever
To think for all these years young Americans thought they were going to die in Iran.
Little Nazi Crybaby needs to fabricate his “forever war”, all so he and his fellow traitors can remain in power. It’s plainly obvious textbook dictator shit.
These are the sorts of things I would do too if I was a child and made president of the United States in the 1980s.
