Trump's decision to send aircraft carrier to South America will leave Mideast and Europe with none

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea. The move comes when a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been threatened by new strikes in Gaza. The U.S. is now in a fairly unusual position of not having an aircraft carrier in the waters off both Europe and the Middle East. The new orders for the USS Gerald R. Ford illustrate the Trump administration’s increasing focus on the Western Hemisphere and mark a major escalation of military firepower to South America. The carrier would join several other U.S. warships in the region.