USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989
The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.
The deployment of the ship and the strike group it leads – which includes dozens of aircraft and destroyer ships – had been announced nearly three weeks ago, and its arrival marks an escalation in the military buildup between the US and Venezuela.
The regime of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, meanwhile, announced what it called a “massive deployment” of land, sea, air, river and missile forces, as well as civilian militia, to counter the US naval presence off its coast.
There’s a page carried by John Bolton from Trumps first term mentioned something like 5k troops to Columbia if I remember correctly, so it’s been in the making for a while now, they’re just using this as an excuse now, even though no fentanyl comes from Venezuela. Not little, literally none. And it’ll be enough to even get the AF crowd to go along with another regime change war. And the elected Democrats will support it.