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.
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