The Fantasy of War: The Far Right and the Military

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🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Fantasy of War - The Far Right and the Military

An undercover investigation by @sianushka & @Heidi_Cuda reveals military personnel and veterans on far-right Telegram channels, and far-right weaponising military tropes in the US and UK🔽

The Fantasy of War: The Far Right and the Military – Byline Times
An undercover investigation by Byline Times reveals military personnel and veterans on far-right Telegram channels, and how the far-right in the Us and UK use military tropes to recruit and spread...
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9:02 AM · Nov 10, 2021

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/11/10/the-fantasy-of-war-the-far-right-and-the-military/


“We haven’t won two world wars through talking and protesting … violence solves things!”

So writes a man claiming to be a member of the British Army, posting on “Tommy Robinson News” – a Telegram channel devoted to far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Undercover research by Byline Times shows how ‘Andy G’ joins other men claiming to be serving or veterans in the US and UK military personnel posting on the channel.

Our investigation comes the week Defence Secretary Ben Wallace addressed military leaders regarding a series of scandals dogging the Armed Forces. It also comes as a former green beret – a member of the US Special Forces – was arrested after accidentally revealing his illegal cache of explosives while trying to sell his home on Zillow. Jeremy Brown was a self-described “Oath Keeper”, a right-wing US militia and is serving a jail term for his involvement in the 6 January Capitol Riots.

Much of the recent conversation on the analysed Telegram channel has focused on vaccinations, with one poster who identifies as “SS” and claims to be in the British Army writing how the “military is finished” due to the high take-up of the vaccine. Another claiming to be an RAF veteran said if he had been made to take the vaccine when in service he would have left.

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[BlueIdaho]

1. Rip them out of our military

Root and Branch.