Pentagon Deploys Carrier to Caribbean, Not a Single OPEC Nation in Sight
The Pentagon is deploying the USS Gerald Ford, its most advanced aircraft carrier laden with stealth jets, to the Caribbean—ostensibly to combat drug cartels. The Guardian framed this as a 'major escalation' by the Trump administration with plans for 'strikes against targets on the ground.' Given the US’s storied history of intervention in Latin America, from the Bay of Pigs to the 'War on Drugs'
in Colombia (which mysteriously coincided with US corporate interests), one might justifiably question if 'drug cartels' are the only 'targets on the ground' generating such expensive attention. History tends to repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as a multi-billion dollar defense contract. With Venezuela's oil reserves looming nearby, and drug interdiction often a convenient smokescreen for
resource diplomacy, one has to wonder if the 'threat' is indeed illicit substances, or merely an independent state refusing to play ball. Who benefits from a destabilized sovereign nation, and who pays for the USS Gerald Ford's very costly detour from the Mediterranean? Certainly not the cartels.