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  1. …The Ford, which is the Navy’s most modern & largest carrier, has 4,000 sailors on board. It is accompanied by the destroyers USS Bainbridge, USS Mahan & USS Winston S. Churchill. Cancian…said it can cost as much as $8.4 million a day to operate an #AircraftCarrier.

    #Trump #law #military #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy

  2. “The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” Cancian surmised, adding that the Ford’s arrival means “the shot clock has started because this is not an asset they can just keep there indefinitely. They have to use it or move it. And moving it would mean they are standing down” from a potential attack on #Venezuela, he said.

    #Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy

  3. The Ford & its 3 accompanying #warships arrived in the region Tuesday, the Navy said in a news release. The ships were not yet in the #Caribbean Sea but had crossed into the #US #SouthCom’s jdx, a vast area that also includes part of the #Atlantic Ocean & drug smuggling routes in the #Pacific used by cartels based in #Colombia & neighboring #Ecuador.

    #Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy

  4. The USS Gerald R. Ford #AircraftCarrier has entered waters near #LatinAmerica, prompting #Venezuela to put the entire country’s #military arsenal at the ready as the #US naval buildup fuels speculation that the #Trump admin intends to dramatically escalate its deadly counternarcotics campaign there.

    #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  5. Venezuelan #military preparing #guerrilla response in case of #US attack

    #Venezuela is deploying #weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, & is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a US air or ground attack, according to sources with knowledge of the efforts & planning documents seen by Reuters.

    #Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy
    reuters.com/world/americas/ven

  6. The White House has said repeatedly that the #Trump admin’s actions “comply fully with the Law of Armed Conflict,” the area of #InternationalLaw that is designed to prevent attacks on #civilians.

    But legal experts say the #LawOfArmedConflict would still apply to civilian drug traffickers, & the designation of a group as a foreign #terrorist organization does not automatically authorize the use of lethal force.

    #law #murder #DueProcess #WarPowers #Congress