The Base -- DIgby

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/12/27/the-base/

These guys seem nice:

Amid high-profile arrests in its Spanish cell, the American-born and designated neo-Nazi terrorist group the Base - once a major preoccupation of FBI counter-terrorism efforts - has all but faded from US headlines. But a flurry of online activities shows the group is still active stateside and considers the US an operational nerve center.

Headed by Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor turned alleged Russian intelligence asset, the Base has been busy of late pursuing European expansion: besides its heavily armed members in Spain, its Ukrainian wing is linked to multiple acts of terrorism inside the country and claimed the high-profile July assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv.

But the Base's online footprint also paints a picture of a more careful, yet active, American presence: videos from November show masked men shooting military-style rifles and pistols in what they claim is an Appalachian forest.

Another June photo, from the same Appalachian cell, shows five armed men in skull masks, holding rifles and brandishing the Base's black flag, while a cell from the mid-Atlantic captures three members performing "sieg heil" salutes, with another from the midwest showing two men firing pistols.

You may have heard that the DOJ is no longer looking at right wing terrorism because they are focusing now on “antifa" and their alleged Democratic enablers like Soros, Act Blue, Indivisible etc. So this is no biggie as far as the Trump administration is concerned.

In the shifting political climate of the second Trump administration, where the FBI has openly rerouted resources away from investigations of far-right extremists, the Base appears free to organize and prepare for their stated objective of fomenting an armed insurgency against the US government.

At the same time, its recruitment has continued to funnel through a Russian email address and has not ceased since the 2020 FBI crackdown against it.

Nazzaro has also matched this new American law enforcement environment with emboldened rhetoric. "Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria" bragged Nazzaro in an audio recording he released in early December over a Russian-controlled app, reviewed by the Guardian. “Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory. And establish a white homeland which we control and govern."

Cool, cool. I suspect they'd be perfectly welcome at a Turning Point event. Maybe next year.

I'm just glad the Trump administration is making sure that America is kept safe from day laborers, No Kings protesters and small dollar Democratic donors. Say what you will, his priorities are straight.