The U.S. Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, has been deployed into the Caribbean Sea on November 16, marking the most significant American military deployment in the region in decades. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is promoting the operation as a crackdown on narcotics smuggling routes but with nearly 12,000 U.S. troops aboard a dozen Navy ships and a backdrop of political tension with Venezuela, critics are concerned with the lack of
