Massive escalation in Trump’s war on drugs as he sends world’s biggest carrier to Caribbean –The Pentagon has established a new joint task force under U.S. Southern Command | 24 Oct 2025 | Donald Trump has ordered the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean in a major escalation in his war on narco-terrorists from Venezuela. USS Gerald R. Ford is joining the deployment of U.S. Southern Command, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Friday. The 1,090-ft vessel — which can carry more than 75 warplanes — moves as part of a carrier strike group that includes a cruiser, three destroyers and nine aircraft squadrons. The 100,000-ton warship joins the largest American force deployed to the Caribbean since the Cold War, including nuclear submarines, F-35 fighter jets, MQ-9 Reaper drones, P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance planes, and B-52 bombers. The extraordinary deployment comes after Trump’s declaration that America is now in a “state of armed conflict” with cartel forces, giving his commanders sweeping latitude to hunt traffickers beyond U.S. waters.