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.


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.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/