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'Latin American Kuwait'? Trump's Looming War In The Caribbean Might Have Nothing To Do With Narco-Terrorism
Why is President Trump amassing such overwhelming US firepower in the Caribbean? We previously wrote that the clock is ticking on Washington's looming anti-Maduro action - as the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrived in Caribbean waters Tuesday after Trump ordered it to depart the Mediterranean where it was on a scheduled patrol. A commander-in-chief doesn't typically spend weeks and even months building up dozens of naval assets and 10,000 troops in typically uneventful waters like the Caribbean, unless he intends to do something big. To wit, Trump's June strike on Iran's nuclear facilities included a fraction of the Caribbean buildup.
"The United States only has 11 carriers, three are at sea at any one time," said CSIS analyst and former US military colonel Mark Cancian. "So, moving one of them into the Caribbean is very significant, it does a couple of t...