Sixty-three years later, a new Cuban Missile Crisis is in the making. Team Trump is building up a vast array of military forces in the Caribbean.

Significantly, more than 10 percent of the U.S. naval fleet is either already on station or, as with the U.S.S. Gerald Ford strike group and U.S.S. Gravely guided-missile destroyer, headed toward the region. In terms of scale, that is akin to Washington’s stationing of U.S. forces to defend Israel against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks earlier this year.

It is also SOUTHCOM’s largest buildup in the region since President John F. Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba in response to the Soviet Union building nuclear missile silos there.

Team Trump, for now, is largely positioning this as a domestic response to drug cartels — particular

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