Carrier’s move to South America leaves Mideast, Europe with none
October 30, 2025
President Donald Trump’s decision to shift the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America in his campaign against drug cartels is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea at a time when a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been threatened by new strikes in Gaza.
The U.S. is set to be in the fairly unusual position of having only a single aircraft carrier deployed…