Friday, October 24, 2025

The Emperor Has No Clothes — Pentagon dispatches aircraft carrier to Latin America as Trump signals escalation

A young woman with silver hair stands at the edge of a storm-tossed sea, her thin dress and russet shawl fluttering in the wind as dusk descends upon the waters. Behind her looms the immense silhouette of an aircraft carrier, its deck aglow with amber lights, its form both fortress and phantom against the turbulent sky. Jets arc overhead like omens, their engines burning faint trails into the gathering dark. Her expression is one of solemn resignation—a figure poised between fragility and prophecy, the human soul adrift amidst the machinery of empire. The chiaroscuro of the scene—the soft pallor of her skin against the steely waves and bronze-lit clouds—evokes a tension between innocence and annihilation. She seems less a witness than an emblem: Liberty transfigured into melancholy, her gaze turned not toward the horizon of conquest but toward the moral abyss that power has made of the sea.
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{WP 24 October} ‘Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Latin America as Trump signals escalation’

I make no claim to expertise in Latin American affairs—though it has, of course, been common knowledge for decades that the region is a nexus of narcotics trafficking and violent gang activity. Yet there is something curiously opaque, almost theatrical, about the sheer display of force being exerted at this particular juncture by the Trump administration.

Ordinarily, I bristle at the facile refrain that any given event is merely a ‘distraction’; such assertions are made far too recklessly by the general public, grossly oversimplifying the world’s complexity by reducing intricate realities to the cartoonish machinations of some shadowy puppet-master redirecting attention from A to B.

In the case of Donald Trump, however—an individual whose conduct and appetites would place him somewhere between extreme egomaniac and libertine of the darkest variety—the pattern is impossible to ignore. Distraction is his modus operandi laid bare: a perpetual barrage of noise and outrage designed to obscure, deflect, and exhaust. Any pretence of subtlety has long since vanished; what remains is a crude, blustering spectacle in which those who dare to state the obvious—that the emperor is stark naked—are shouted down by the mob that crowns him clothed.

Merely another day in #Murica, then—a nation so desensitised to absurdity that tyranny now parades as entertainment. —Arthur Newhook, 24 October 2025.


Rising Medicare premiums—to say nothing of inflation and other external economic pressures—are going to wipe it out, yet Social Security recipients are set to receive a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment in 2026, says the SSA. {AP 24 October}

Copyright 2025, Arthur Newhook.

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