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.

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    1 day ago

    all this to blow up impoverished fishermen. The cruelty of the Us empire knows no bounds.

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      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.

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        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