2025-11-04
22 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence.
From The Economist, I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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But first...
This morning, the USS Gerald R.
Ford, the biggest aircraft carrier in the world,
slipped out of the Mediterranean and set a course for the Caribbean.
It'll join, by now I guess you'd call it a flotilla of other American naval hardware in the region.
Destroyers and cruisers and amphibious transport dock ships.
All this
while America has carried out an intensifying campaign of airstrikes on vessels that it alleges are full of drugs and drug peddlers.
Let's get right to breaking news.
The Secretary of War is announcing a new deadly strike on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.