The Case of the Missing Armada
There are several possibilities for the case of the missing Armada, that Trump claimed to have sent to North Korea. (Just to clear myself with the FBI, the intelligence services, and the Navy, this article is written for humor.)
To be sure that I knew how many ships were accompanying the aircraft carrier, I looked up “Armada”. Oddly enough, so did many other people, so much so that it was at 1% of lookups at Miriam-Webster.com. And what to my wondering eyes did appear as Related to Armada? Trump’s picture with the phrase: “We Are Sending an Armada”. Trump has literally become the poster boy for “Armada”.
The entry also says that in Spanish speaking countries, Armada means their entire Navy. For comparison, the Spanish Great Armada that England and storms defeated in 1588 was composed of 120 ships.
Since the TV showed the aircraft carrier with only four destroyers, instead of a complete carrier fleet, I can see why people had to look it up.
As you noticed, I haven’t yet named the aircraft carrier. I was born just before we entered WWII, and was taught that “loose lips sink ships”, so I won’t name the carrier, even though all of the TV stations have.
Here’s my first theory. In a recent TV interview, Trump said that he had sent missiles to Iraq. He was immediately corrected to Syria. Is it possible that Trump told his Security Council or Generals or Navy, that he wanted the carrier sent to South Korea as a slip? I assume that they did not want to correct Trump, since he doubles down on all of this mistakes anyway, rather than admit he was wrong. It wasn’t until they heard Trump saying that the Armada was off North Korean coast, that they realized their error, and they repositioned it.
My second theory, is that the Navy was very upset that Trump had wasted 60 expensive and advanced Tomahawk missiles, worth $96 million dollars, to knock out a handful of Korean War fighter planes, and knock out a runway that would be repaired the next day anyway. So to prevent Trump from launching them on a whim overnight or to entertains guests at his dinner party, they sent the carrier in the opposite direction, to the tip of South Korea. They may have also been afraid that the attack would lead to a war, and did not want to act before the largely invisible state Department was consulted.
In Trump’s world of deciding to learn Chinese—North Korea history from his opponent, Chinese President Xi Jinping, instead of our 70,000 person State Department, maybe Xi told him that the aircraft carrier was too aggressive a move, and to send it South. Trump may have diverted it on his own, but never told America that he had backed down.
Since Trump is fairly paranoid, and fears the “deep state” of Obama leftovers spying on him or undermining him, he must be searching for who controverted his orders, without realizing, it may have been himself.
Was the press footage with only four destroyers just stock footage, and not covering the present reality?, in which case a full carrier group might have been sent? Did the carrier need a delay to catch up to the full fleet? Now I am treading on possibly security matters, and will end this enquiry. We’re pretty sure that Trump is going to look for someone to take the blame, and fall on their sextant.