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.
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.