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  1. They could also be thugs working for one of #ErikPrince's many security companies... Or #Spetsnaz. I wouldn't rule out the Russians getting involved in sowing chaos here in the US. They did that in Europe (and of course, still doing it in Ukraine)!

    @BobLefridge @CindyWeinstein

  2. US #NeoNazi group with #Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks

    #TheBase, #terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #Trump pulls FBI from pursuing #FarRight

    Ben Makuch
    Sat 5 Apr 2025

    "A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

    "The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to several arrests and world governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

    "Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI from pursuing the far right, the Base, left unchecked, is trying to export its violence abroad.

    "This is the first time the Base has openly allied itself with the Kremlin’s broader geopolitical goals, a sudden change experts say signals its likely involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations now being carried out across Europe.

    "The Base founder and leader, #RinaldoNazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with US special forces during the war on terror and now lives in Saint Petersburg, has for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset. Even members of the Base mused that he was a spy and grew wary of the source of his cash flow."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #KashPatel #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #WorldPol #Putin #Trump #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #Spetsnaz

  3. US #NeoNazi group with #Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks

    #TheBase, #terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #Trump pulls FBI from pursuing #FarRight

    Ben Makuch
    Sat 5 Apr 2025

    "A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

    "The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to several arrests and world governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

    "Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI from pursuing the far right, the Base, left unchecked, is trying to export its violence abroad.

    "This is the first time the Base has openly allied itself with the Kremlin’s broader geopolitical goals, a sudden change experts say signals its likely involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations now being carried out across Europe.

    "The Base founder and leader, #RinaldoNazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with US special forces during the war on terror and now lives in Saint Petersburg, has for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset. Even members of the Base mused that he was a spy and grew wary of the source of his cash flow."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #KashPatel #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #WorldPol #Putin #Trump #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #Spetsnaz

  4. US #NeoNazi group with #Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks

    #TheBase, #terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #Trump pulls FBI from pursuing #FarRight

    Ben Makuch
    Sat 5 Apr 2025

    "A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

    "The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to several arrests and world governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

    "Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI from pursuing the far right, the Base, left unchecked, is trying to export its violence abroad.

    "This is the first time the Base has openly allied itself with the Kremlin’s broader geopolitical goals, a sudden change experts say signals its likely involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations now being carried out across Europe.

    "The Base founder and leader, #RinaldoNazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with US special forces during the war on terror and now lives in Saint Petersburg, has for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset. Even members of the Base mused that he was a spy and grew wary of the source of his cash flow."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #KashPatel #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #WorldPol #Putin #Trump #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #Spetsnaz

  5. US #NeoNazi group with #Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks

    #TheBase, #terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #Trump pulls FBI from pursuing #FarRight

    Ben Makuch
    Sat 5 Apr 2025

    "A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

    "The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to several arrests and world governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

    "Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI from pursuing the far right, the Base, left unchecked, is trying to export its violence abroad.

    "This is the first time the Base has openly allied itself with the Kremlin’s broader geopolitical goals, a sudden change experts say signals its likely involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations now being carried out across Europe.

    "The Base founder and leader, #RinaldoNazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with US special forces during the war on terror and now lives in Saint Petersburg, has for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset. Even members of the Base mused that he was a spy and grew wary of the source of his cash flow."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #KashPatel #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #WorldPol #Putin #Trump #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #Spetsnaz

  6. US #NeoNazi group with #Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks

    #TheBase, #terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #Trump pulls FBI from pursuing #FarRight

    Ben Makuch
    Sat 5 Apr 2025

    "A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

    "The Base, which has a web of cells all over the world, was founded in 2018 and became the subject of a relentless FBI counter-terrorism investigation that led to several arrests and world governments officially designating it as a terrorist organization.

    "Now, with the Trump administration pulling the FBI from pursuing the far right, the Base, left unchecked, is trying to export its violence abroad.

    "This is the first time the Base has openly allied itself with the Kremlin’s broader geopolitical goals, a sudden change experts say signals its likely involvement in Russian sabotage and propaganda operations now being carried out across Europe.

    "The Base founder and leader, #RinaldoNazzaro, a semi-defected American who worked with US special forces during the war on terror and now lives in Saint Petersburg, has for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset. Even members of the Base mused that he was a spy and grew wary of the source of his cash flow."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #KashPatel #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #WorldPol #Putin #Trump #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #Spetsnaz

  7. 6. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig: Freut euch auf New Model Army (UK), Spetsnaz (S), Mila Mar (D), Silent Runners (NL), Beborn Beton (D), Rue Oberkampf (D), Shrouds (USA), Eisenfunk (D) und The Exploding Boy (S). Im Reel: Ein schneller Überblick über die Bands dieser Ankündigung! 🎸🎶 #wgt2025 #newmodelarmy #spetsnaz #milamar #silentrunners #bebornbeton #rueoberkampf #shrouds #eisenfunk #theexplodingboy #alternative #electro #rock #ind...
    mpgo.ws/flcpF

    #monkeypress

  8. 6. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig: Freut euch auf New Model Army (UK), Spetsnaz (S), Mila Mar (D), Silent Runners (NL), Beborn Beton (D), Rue Oberkampf (D), Shrouds (USA), Eisenfunk (D) und The Exploding Boy (S). Im Reel: Ein schneller Überblick über die Bands dieser Ankündigung! 🎸🎶 #wgt2025 #newmodelarmy #spetsnaz #milamar #silentrunners #bebornbeton #rueoberkampf #shrouds #eisenfunk #theexplodingboy #alternative #electro #rock #ind...
    mpgo.ws/flcpF

    #monkeypress

  9. 6. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig: Freut euch auf New Model Army (UK), Spetsnaz (S), Mila Mar (D), Silent Runners (NL), Beborn Beton (D), Rue Oberkampf (D), Shrouds (USA), Eisenfunk (D) und The Exploding Boy (S). Im Reel: Ein schneller Überblick über die Bands dieser Ankündigung! 🎸🎶 #wgt2025 #newmodelarmy #spetsnaz #milamar #silentrunners #bebornbeton #rueoberkampf #shrouds #eisenfunk #theexplodingboy #alternative #electro #rock #ind...
    mpgo.ws/flcpF

    #monkeypress

  10. 6. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig: Freut euch auf New Model Army (UK), Spetsnaz (S), Mila Mar (D), Silent Runners (NL), Beborn Beton (D), Rue Oberkampf (D), Shrouds (USA), Eisenfunk (D) und The Exploding Boy (S). Im Reel: Ein schneller Überblick über die Bands dieser Ankündigung! 🎸🎶 #wgt2025 #newmodelarmy #spetsnaz #milamar #silentrunners #bebornbeton #rueoberkampf #shrouds #eisenfunk #theexplodingboy #alternative #electro #rock #ind...
    mpgo.ws/flcpF

    #monkeypress

  11. 6. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig: Freut euch auf New Model Army (UK), Spetsnaz (S), Mila Mar (D), Silent Runners (NL), Beborn Beton (D), Rue Oberkampf (D), Shrouds (USA), Eisenfunk (D) und The Exploding Boy (S). Im Reel: Ein schneller Überblick über die Bands dieser Ankündigung! 🎸🎶 #wgt2025 #newmodelarmy #spetsnaz #milamar #silentrunners #bebornbeton #rueoberkampf #shrouds #eisenfunk #theexplodingboy #alternative #electro #rock #ind...
    mpgo.ws/flcpF

    #monkeypress

  12. ✨ 5. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024! 🎸 Erlebt im Reel einen Schnelldurchlauf der Bands der neuesten Bandwelle: New Model Army, Spetsnaz, Mila Mar, Silent Runners, Beborn Beton, Rue Oberkampf, Shrouds, Eisenfunk und The Exploding Boy. 🌌
    #newmodelarmy #ukpostpunk #spetsnaz #aggrotech #ebm #electroindustrial #futurepop #oldschoolebm #swedishebm #milamar #silentrunners #darkpostpunk #dutchpostpunk #bebornbeton #synthpop #rueoberkampf #shrou...
    mpgo.ws/xGJgu

    #monkeypress

  13. ✨ 5. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024! 🎸 Erlebt im Reel einen Schnelldurchlauf der Bands der neuesten Bandwelle: New Model Army, Spetsnaz, Mila Mar, Silent Runners, Beborn Beton, Rue Oberkampf, Shrouds, Eisenfunk und The Exploding Boy. 🌌
    #newmodelarmy #ukpostpunk #spetsnaz #aggrotech #ebm #electroindustrial #futurepop #oldschoolebm #swedishebm #milamar #silentrunners #darkpostpunk #dutchpostpunk #bebornbeton #synthpop #rueoberkampf #shrou...
    mpgo.ws/xGJgu

    #monkeypress

  14. ✨ 5. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024! 🎸 Erlebt im Reel einen Schnelldurchlauf der Bands der neuesten Bandwelle: New Model Army, Spetsnaz, Mila Mar, Silent Runners, Beborn Beton, Rue Oberkampf, Shrouds, Eisenfunk und The Exploding Boy. 🌌
    #newmodelarmy #ukpostpunk #spetsnaz #aggrotech #ebm #electroindustrial #futurepop #oldschoolebm #swedishebm #milamar #silentrunners #darkpostpunk #dutchpostpunk #bebornbeton #synthpop #rueoberkampf #shrou...
    mpgo.ws/xGJgu

    #monkeypress

  15. ✨ 5. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024! 🎸 Erlebt im Reel einen Schnelldurchlauf der Bands der neuesten Bandwelle: New Model Army, Spetsnaz, Mila Mar, Silent Runners, Beborn Beton, Rue Oberkampf, Shrouds, Eisenfunk und The Exploding Boy. 🌌
    #newmodelarmy #ukpostpunk #spetsnaz #aggrotech #ebm #electroindustrial #futurepop #oldschoolebm #swedishebm #milamar #silentrunners #darkpostpunk #dutchpostpunk #bebornbeton #synthpop #rueoberkampf #shrou...
    mpgo.ws/xGJgu

    #monkeypress

  16. ✨ 5. Bandwelle für das Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024! 🎸 Erlebt im Reel einen Schnelldurchlauf der Bands der neuesten Bandwelle: New Model Army, Spetsnaz, Mila Mar, Silent Runners, Beborn Beton, Rue Oberkampf, Shrouds, Eisenfunk und The Exploding Boy. 🌌
    #newmodelarmy #ukpostpunk #spetsnaz #aggrotech #ebm #electroindustrial #futurepop #oldschoolebm #swedishebm #milamar #silentrunners #darkpostpunk #dutchpostpunk #bebornbeton #synthpop #rueoberkampf #shrou...
    mpgo.ws/xGJgu

    #monkeypress

  17. @fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract

    A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club

    Kira Harris
    July 2020

    "Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #Spetsnaz #DestabilizingForces #FarRight

  18. @fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract

    A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club

    Kira Harris
    July 2020

    "Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #Spetsnaz #DestabilizingForces #FarRight

  19. @fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract

    A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club

    Kira Harris
    July 2020

    "Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #Spetsnaz #DestabilizingForces #FarRight

  20. @fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract

    A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club

    Kira Harris
    July 2020

    "Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #Spetsnaz #DestabilizingForces #FarRight

  21. @fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract

    A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club

    Kira Harris
    July 2020

    "Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #Spetsnaz #DestabilizingForces #FarRight

  22. @fergabell @OldSquida2

    From 2018: The #NightWolves: Russian Motorcycle Club or Kremlin Militia?

    "The Night Wolves, Nochnye Volki in Russian, are a Russian motorcycle club that over the last two decades has morphed into a pan-European corporation and a mini-conglomerate of about 60 different businesses. Their activities include consumer organizations, entertainment, security services and a variety of manufacturing businesses ranging from motorcycle accessories to clothing.

    "They have also been implicated in several Kremlin-sponsored covert operations in eastern Ukraine and in the Russian takeover of Crimea. And they were suspected of being involved in the assassination of Milo Djukanovic, the president of Montenegro. The assassination is now seen as an attempt to derail the country's entry into NATO.

    "Nicknamed Putin's Angels, they are widely seen as a sort of militia that operates in a variety of roles at the Kremlin's behest while, at the same time, affording the Russian government the luxury of denying any responsibility for their actions.

    The group, many of its leaders and several of its affiliated companies, has been placed on sanctions lists by the U.S., Canada and several European countries."

    military.com/daily-news/2018/0

    #Spetsnaz

  23. More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...

    Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men

    Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.

    By Michael Carpenter
    August 29, 2018

    "Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'

    "On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.

    "In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
    It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."

    Archive:
    archive.ph/zOwww

    #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  24. More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...

    Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men

    Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.

    By Michael Carpenter
    August 29, 2018

    "Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'

    "On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.

    "In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
    It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."

    Archive:
    archive.ph/zOwww

    #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  25. More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...

    Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men

    Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.

    By Michael Carpenter
    August 29, 2018

    "Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'

    "On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.

    "In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
    It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."

    Archive:
    archive.ph/zOwww

    #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  26. More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...

    Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men

    Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.

    By Michael Carpenter
    August 29, 2018

    "Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'

    "On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.

    "In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
    It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."

    Archive:
    archive.ph/zOwww

    #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  27. More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...

    Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men

    Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.

    By Michael Carpenter
    August 29, 2018

    "Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'

    "On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.

    "In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
    It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."

    Archive:
    archive.ph/zOwww

    #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  28. #SpetsnazMC is very much still active.

    "The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."

    facebook.com/groups/2313010672

    #ACAB #RussianSpecialForces #Spetsnaz #NightWolves

  29. #SpetsnazMC is very much still active.

    "The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."

    facebook.com/groups/2313010672

    #ACAB #RussianSpecialForces #Spetsnaz #NightWolves

  30. #SpetsnazMC is very much still active.

    "The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."

    facebook.com/groups/2313010672

    #ACAB #RussianSpecialForces #Spetsnaz #NightWolves

  31. #SpetsnazMC is very much still active.

    "The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."

    facebook.com/groups/2313010672

    #ACAB #RussianSpecialForces #Spetsnaz #NightWolves

  32. #SpetsnazMC is very much still active.

    "The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."

    facebook.com/groups/2313010672

    #ACAB #RussianSpecialForces #Spetsnaz #NightWolves

  33. #Russian official linked to #SouthFlorida biker club spent millions on #Trump condos

    Lily Dobrovolskaya and Nicholas Nehamas
    July 15, 2017

    "#Mangushev is a former officer in Russia’s security service, the #FSB, the successor agency to the #KGB. He first appeared in Miami around 2010.

    "In Russia, he ran a group of companies called #AlphaAnticriminal that provided security for some of Russia’s biggest state-owned companies and government agencies. The Alpha-Anticriminal companies were listed under the name of a relative until 2014, according to Russian corporate records.

    "#AlphaTeam is an elite #Spetsnaz counter-terrorism unit that operates within Russia’s security service. Mangushev told Russian media that he is a former Alpha Team officer and that many of his employees are veterans of Russia’s security service."

    news-journalonline.com/story/n

    #SpetsnazMC #NightWolves

    @OldSquida2

  34. Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:

    [#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.

    Paging Hunter S. Thompson.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Published: Jun 26, 2017

    "[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

    "Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.

    "So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.

    "Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"

    Read more: esquire.com/news-politics/poli

    @OldSquida2

  35. Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:

    [#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.

    Paging Hunter S. Thompson.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Published: Jun 26, 2017

    "[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

    "Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.

    "So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.

    "Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"

    Read more: esquire.com/news-politics/poli

    @OldSquida2

  36. Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:

    [#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.

    Paging Hunter S. Thompson.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Published: Jun 26, 2017

    "[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

    "Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.

    "So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.

    "Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"

    Read more: esquire.com/news-politics/poli

    @OldSquida2

  37. Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:

    [#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.

    Paging Hunter S. Thompson.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Published: Jun 26, 2017

    "[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

    "Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.

    "So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.

    "Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"

    Read more: esquire.com/news-politics/poli

    @OldSquida2

  38. Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:

    [#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.

    Paging Hunter S. Thompson.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Published: Jun 26, 2017

    "[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

    "Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.

    "So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.

    "Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"

    Read more: esquire.com/news-politics/poli

    @OldSquida2

  39. [Thread] A while back on the bird site, I posted some articles about #Spetsnaz and #NightWolves -- #Russian biker gangs that are terrorizing other countries in Europe (including #Ukraine). The really f*cked up thing is that Spetsnaz has connections to other biker gangs -- including one in #Florida that has members connected to #PoliceOfficers and #Trump. Again, I'm not telling people how to vote, but please consider how really evil Trump and his "friends" are...

    #ACAB #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #TheBase

  40. [Thread] A while back on the bird site, I posted some articles about #Spetsnaz and #NightWolves -- #Russian biker gangs that are terrorizing other countries in Europe (including #Ukraine). The really f*cked up thing is that Spetsnaz has connections to other biker gangs -- including one in #Florida that has members connected to #PoliceOfficers and #Trump. Again, I'm not telling people how to vote, but please consider how really evil Trump and his "friends" are...

    #ACAB #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #TheBase

  41. [Thread] A while back on the bird site, I posted some articles about #Spetsnaz and #NightWolves -- #Russian biker gangs that are terrorizing other countries in Europe (including #Ukraine). The really f*cked up thing is that Spetsnaz has connections to other biker gangs -- including one in #Florida that has members connected to #PoliceOfficers and #Trump. Again, I'm not telling people how to vote, but please consider how really evil Trump and his "friends" are...

    #ACAB #WhiteEthnostate #WhiteSupremacy #TheBase