The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort.

The Base, founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation.

But since the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    You’d think they’d get the message … when push comes to shove, and if they ever get into real authoritarian power again, the majority of the world will take up arms to fight them … and there are more of us than there are of them and judging from the track record over the past few wars, they’ve seldom won (they have won in a few places but not many)