Invasive Species
From warships off Venezuela to an empty seat at COP30, Trump’s America spreads like a blight across the hemisphere.
Good morning! The world’s largest aircraft carrier slid into Latin American waters this week like a symbol of everything that’s gone wrong with the American psyche, loud, overcompensating, and armed to the teeth. The USS Gerald R. Ford, a floating $13 billion monument to dysfunction, has arrived off Venezuela under the banner of “anti-drug operations.” …



