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.
Gotta wonder what just parking all these gas guzzlers on the south side of the Equator is costing us.
Not that it matters, since we have unlimited money for stupid military bullshit. But I’m about to hear a bunch of hawks tell me the US Treasury is out of money and we can’t afford Medicaid anymore. I can’t help see this next Glorious Christian Invasion of a recalcitrant petro-state as a big hole in my pocket leaking money.
Gotta wonder what just parking all these gas guzzlers on the south side of the Equator is costing us.
This is a really weird criticism in an article about a nuclear-powered carrier.
Even more weird for an article about the vessel parking north of the equator.
all the aircraft and support ships burn oil though
*The US Citizen’s Largest Warship
That’s ours. We own it. And we own any travesty that might unfold because of it.
(I feel like calling it The “Pentagon’s” removes our ownership of the whole thing. Yes, I know it’s our Pentagon as well, but I feel like it’s easy to artificially distance ourselves from this with that language).
Can we just… not? I know Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumamn, Raytheon, BAE, L3-Harris, etc. need their blood sacrifices to keep the military-industrial complex growing, but… can we just not? Can we have nuclear, solar, wind, and hydro energy and free healthcare/college? It would cost the same if we just cut the US DOD allocation by like 70%.
Even if we scaled back only 25%, that’s still $850B * 0.25 = $212 BILLION to put towards all that stuff.
shit, we could get that allocation by just by cutting our health
careprofit subsidies for universal healthcare
I hope that stupid thing gets hit by lightning
What the hell is in those files? He better have someone in them pay for all this.
