The Mysterious Case of the Missing Armada
Can reality TV explain why President Trump said he was sending an entire aircraft carrier group to North Korea when it was actually headed in the opposite direction? New York Times Friday, 21 April, 2017 The Mysterious Case of the Missing Armada We need to talk about the armada. Last week, President Trump said he was sending an aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula to put pressure on Kim Jong-un to not further escalate his nuclear program. "We are sending an armada,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network. “Very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier, that I can tell you." Although some lauded the decision as a show of Mr. Trump’s resolve, the announcement raised tensions in Asia, prompting fears that the carrier group might provoke North Korea to act even more aggressively, perhaps even sparking a war. Except it turned out that the carrier group was, at that point, thousands of m