Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up

Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on landThe Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a major escalation in the Trump administration’s war against drug cartels that provides the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground.The move will bring the USS Gerald Ford carrier, with dozens of stealth fighter jets and surveillance aircraft, in addition to other warships that accompany the carrier, to the coast of Venezuela as it nears the end of its current deployment in the Mediterranean. Continue reading...

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