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13 charged in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

 via CNN

Thirteen people were charged Thursday in an alleged domestic terrorism plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, federal and state officials announced.

The alleged scheme included plans to overthrow several state governments that the suspects "believe are violating the US Constitution," including the government of Michigan and Whitmer, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Six people were charged federally with conspiracy to kidnap, and seven other people, associated with the militia group "Wolverine Watchmen," were charged by the state, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

Don't get this twisted gents.  I do not in anyway condone this stuff.

But let's get actual and factual.

How many of these governors that inacted these DRACONIAN lockdown orders do you think will be re-elected?  How many people do you think suffered tremendous psychological damage due to the lockdown?  How many people do you think have suffered a deterioration in their health because they were unable to get medical treatment because hospitals for a time were not seeing patients?  How many children are gonna suffer incacuable emotional/developmental damage because they were not allowed to go to school?

In short.

What did you expect when you in essence place almost the entire nation on house arrest?

Blowback should have been expected.  I don't know for sure but from what I remember some of the restrictions she put in place were bordering on the petty.

Does that justify this plot?

FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually expected her to get curb stomped in the next election, not for a group to plot her kidnapping (in reality this probably makes her sympathetic to some of the electorate in the state).

But putting all that to the side, one thing is certain.

The USA is suffering some severe trama from this whole covid thing and the real problem is that the real economic pain for us and the rest of the world has yet to begin.

2020 sucked.

I fear 2021 won't be any better. 

Light blogging...gotta work another hurricane...

 

Gotta love it.

Little to no blogging for a bit. Yeah, you guessed it. Another fucking hurricane. This year definitely is sucking. I can't even begin to tell ya about the drama with this stuff. The Dept sent people down to work the last one and now we're gearing up for this one in our own backyard. 

We definitely are living in interesting times.

The crazy thing for me is that I thought I was far enough North to avoid the worst of it but projected wind gusts are up to 110mph and we're expecting 10-15 inches of rain. Thank God for a 4x4 Ford Bronco with a 351 Windsor (don't get it twisted, its a 95) with a 4 inch lift on 33's!

Anyway send prayers up for the community. We got people in the area that live in what we call "shotgun" houses and trailers and I'm actually a bit concerned for many of them.

PARS III 6x6

The Turkish Air Force is actively participating in the fighting? That adds a new spin to thing!

There are at least two F-16s at Ganja International Airport in Azerbaijan, our analysis of an Oct. 3 @planetlabs satellite image shows. The fighter jets are likely operated by the Turkish Air Force, alongside a possible CN-235 cargo aircraft. Here’s a short thread why. pic.twitter.com/de1XsmXXZr

— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) October 7, 2020

Wow. 

 This explains alot!

I've been personally been wondering why the Armenians have been getting rolled so hard.  I've been wondering why they've been getting pummeled from the air.

The Turks are playing the "Advisor" & "Fighter" role.  Could this turn into a Vietnam in Europe for them?  I doubt it.  The EU, and/or US and/or Russia will probably soon step in to put a halt to this thing.

Group of Azeri soldiers try to retreat then Armenian mortar scores direct hit

Group of Azeri soldiers try to retreat then Armenian mortar scores direct hit ( it seems +10 casualties) video from @200_zoka pic.twitter.com/a9qEAkmWuB

— Tiger (@Unknown77991) October 7, 2020

I had a moment of hesitation with regard to this post and a few others I've done recently. Is it wrong to post images of men fighting and dying? Then I realized that this is part of war that isn't shown and most nations attempt to hide. The savagery of the wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan and N. Africa isn't shown. 

The willful ignorance of so many citizens in the West is why some Marines and Soldiers are starting to see THEIR children deploy to the same war they fought. 

This whole thing is unsat. 

 I'll continue to post this stuff cause the unknowning need to see the reality of the world.

French Griffon & Jaguar conduct naval/amphibious integration tests...

 

Here

French Scorpion Program Vehicles @ PCAT 2020

 

Très belle répétition pour la #PCAT2020 aujourd'hui avec les véhicules du programme #SCORPION à l'honneur ! pic.twitter.com/Fxcvti5TPE

— Nexter_Group (@Nexter_Group) October 7, 2020

China builds a Wiesel clone...

 

Here

The Chinese have absolutely NO shame. Ya know what the problem is though.  They'll copy it and product improve it!  Diabolical!

Now we know what will happen to the Marine Corps LHA/LHDs...the Missile Marine Corps will turn them into Light Carriers to augment the big deck carriers. But what about the LPDs?

 via Naval Institute News.

Esper’s Battle Force 2045, which he rolled out during an online event today at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, lays out plans for achieving a fleet of 500 manned and unmanned ships by 2045, and a fleet of 355 traditional battle force ships by 2035 – all in a resource-constrained budget environment.

First, he said, the fleet would have a larger and more capable attack submarine fleet of 70 to 80 SSNs.

“If we do nothing else, the Navy must begin building three Virginia-class submarines a year as soon as possible,” he said in the event during his opening remarks. “If we do nothing else, we should invest in attack submarines,” he repeated later during a question-and-answer session.

Esper also called for refueling a total of seven Los Angeles-class SSNs, compared to the five or six the Navy had previously discussed, and invest heavily in the SSN(X) future submarine program.

Second, Esper stated that nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would remain the most visible deterrence on the seas, but he said a new future air wing would have to be developed to increase their range and lethality, and that light carriers would have to supplement the Nimitz- and Ford-class supercarriers to help achieve greater day-to-day presence while preserving limited CVN readiness, which has been strained recently by overuse and backups at maintenance yards. Up to six light carriers, possibly based on the America-class amphibious assault ship design, would operate both instead of and alongside the CVNs.

Here

I've wondered what the Missile Marines were gonna do with the LHA/LHD since they would no longer be needed for the amphibious assault mission (remember Berger tossed the idea of amphibious forcible entry into the trash can) and now we know.

They're gonna use them for a bullshit light carrier mission.

Never mind that they're not designed for that role.

Marine Aviation has been tossed a temporary bone to keep them at the table (and prevent them from joining with the Ground Combat Element in being repulsed by this idea).

I say temporary because all that money the Missile Marines are tossing to aviators that left the service (up to 100 thousand dollars to return to active duty) is just a short term fix.

Check this out from the same article.

Sixth, he said, the Navy would need unmanned aircraft launching off carrier decks to cover all the missions of today’s air wing: fighters, refueling, early warning and electronic attack. He alluded this recently while speaking to sailors aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USNI News previously reported.

Read the article to get the flavor for yourself and develop your own opinion.  Oh but let me leave you with this.

Remember me telling you that those Light Amphibious Ships was a shatterpoint for this whole concept?  Behold!

 And lastly, he pledged his support for the Marines’ Force Design 2030 effort and the new classes of ships and connectors needed to accomplish this, though he added that more work would be needed in this area.

Amazing.

The current individual sitting in the Commandant's chair will be a lame duck by the end of next year.  The bubba sitting in the SecDef's chair will be gone sooner no matter how the election turns out.

These plans are D-E-A-D. DEAD!

They worked hard to produce a steaming pile of shit. 

Sidenote.  The answer to what will happen to the LHA/LHDs has been answered. So let's assume that this abomination actually gets done.  What happens to the LPDs the Marine Corps demanded it needed and now a few years later appears to have no need for?

Patria AMVxp integrated with Elbit Systems MT30MK2

NATO BATTLEGROUP LATVIA @ Silver Arrow 2020

#SILVERARROW2020 was the exercise for all combat & combat support trades #eFP BG #Latvia integrating with the Latvian Brigade. We have successfully integrated all 10 nations to conduct defensive operations to protect Latvia from any potential threat. #StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO pic.twitter.com/qu4CuaMxio

— NATO eFP Battle Group Latvia (@eFPBGLatvia) October 6, 2020