Aircraft carrier deployment enables a bad Maduro decapitation option

Aircraft carrier deployment enables a bad Maduro decapitation option


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With this week’s arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier along with her three destroyers and one attack submarine escorts, the U.S. military has completed a major buildup around Venezuela. It could now credibly attempt a decapitation operation against dictator Nicolas Maduro should President Donald Trump order it. The president has already authorized CIA action to destabilize Maduro’s regime.

This is not to say that Trump should order decapitation strikes to force Maduro out of power. On the contrary, the

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