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trump is not racist but he likes to insult people like the beef with Rosie O Donnell
The Trump Administration has begun a new phase in the war on terrorism by sanctioning a white supremacist group as a foreign terrorist organization for the first time in history. The action puts Russia on notice for its promotion of pro-Putin white supremacists within the West, including the United States.
The State and Treasury Departments blacklisted the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and three of its leaders. The group has two terrorist training camps in St. Petersburg that are “likely being used for woodland and urban assault, tactical weapons and hand-to-hand combat training.”
Tellingly, the group has offered paramilitary training to U.S.-based neo-Nazi groups that took part in the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, where a white supremacist killed one counter-protester and injured 40 in a vehicular attack. RIM claims that no American groups have taken up its offer.
The Russian dictatorship uses RIM as a proxy: In Ukraine, RIM is actively fighting for the Russian cause. This activity is happening with the Putin regime’s acquiescence, if not direct collaboration.
RIM is at least indirectly responsible for terrorist attacks in Sweden. In 2016, a terror cell tried to set off three bombs targeting an immigration office, a café popular among left-wing activists and a housing area for refugees seeking asylum. Only one bomb detonated, injuring an employee of the immigration office.
Three neo-Nazi terrorists who belonged to the Nordic Resistance Movement were charged with the bombings. Prosecutors believe, however, the three were disillusioned with this group for not being violent enough. For training, they went to St. Petersburg for instruction from the Russian Imperial Movement for 11 days.
RIM openly says it wants to create a “Right-Wing International” that will “share the experience of political [and] information warfare and joint squad tactics training.”
In 2015, RIM began a relationship with the now-defunct Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), one of the entities involved in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.
The party’s leader, Matthew Heimbach, met with a RIM representative in Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg in 2017. He told Think Progress:
“Thanks to this order, the State Department can now designate groups and individuals that participate in training to commit acts of terrorism. We can also designate the leaders of terrorist groups, without needing to show that they were involved in particular attacks,” it said.
The State Department is likely to designate other foreign white supremacist groups. It was reported last month that the administration was considering designating foreign branches of the Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen as well as The Base as terrorists.
In February, the FBI arrested eight members of The Base planning attacks on U.S. soil. The Base also has strong links to Russia.
It is led by a New Jersey-born, former military contractor named Rinaldo Nazzaro. He now resides in St. Petersburg.
According to the BBC, Nazzaro wears pro-Putin shirts and in 2019 “was listed as a guest at a Russian government security exhibition in Moscow, which ‘focused on the demonstration of the results of state policy and achievements.’”
RIM is just one part of Putin’s strategy to develop a pro-Russian fifth column in the U.S. and the West more broadly.
Russia has become the ideological capital for white supremacists. As Portland State University lecturer Alexander Reid Ross puts it, “Russia has become a safe, central organizing hub for U.S. paramilitary fascist organizations and global fascist networks.”
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The Trump Administration has begun a new phase in the war on terrorism by sanctioning a white supremacist group as a foreign terrorist organization for the first time in history. The action puts Russia on notice for its promotion of pro-Putin white supremacists within the West, including the United States.
The State and Treasury Departments blacklisted the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and three of its leaders. The group has two terrorist training camps in St. Petersburg that are “likely being used for woodland and urban assault, tactical weapons and hand-to-hand combat training.”
Tellingly, the group has offered paramilitary training to U.S.-based neo-Nazi groups that took part in the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, where a white supremacist killed one counter-protester and injured 40 in a vehicular attack. RIM claims that no American groups have taken up its offer.
The Russian dictatorship uses RIM as a proxy: In Ukraine, RIM is actively fighting for the Russian cause. This activity is happening with the Putin regime’s acquiescence, if not direct collaboration.
RIM is at least indirectly responsible for terrorist attacks in Sweden. In 2016, a terror cell tried to set off three bombs targeting an immigration office, a café popular among left-wing activists and a housing area for refugees seeking asylum. Only one bomb detonated, injuring an employee of the immigration office.
Three neo-Nazi terrorists who belonged to the Nordic Resistance Movement were charged with the bombings. Prosecutors believe, however, the three were disillusioned with this group for not being violent enough. For training, they went to St. Petersburg for instruction from the Russian Imperial Movement for 11 days.
RIM openly says it wants to create a “Right-Wing International” that will “share the experience of political [and] information warfare and joint squad tactics training.”
In 2015, RIM began a relationship with the now-defunct Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), one of the entities involved in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.
The party’s leader, Matthew Heimbach, met with a RIM representative in Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg in 2017. He told Think Progress:
The State Department explained that its actions against the RIM were made possible by an order signed by President Trump that made it easier to sanction and prosecute terrorists.
“Thanks to this order, the State Department can now designate groups and individuals that participate in training to commit acts of terrorism. We can also designate the leaders of terrorist groups, without needing to show that they were involved in particular attacks,” it said.
The State Department is likely to designate other foreign white supremacist groups. It was reported last month that the administration was considering designating foreign branches of the Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen as well as The Base as terrorists.
In February, the FBI arrested eight members of The Base planning attacks on U.S. soil. The Base also has strong links to Russia.
It is led by a New Jersey-born, former military contractor named Rinaldo Nazzaro. He now resides in St. Petersburg.
According to the BBC, Nazzaro wears pro-Putin shirts and in 2019 “was listed as a guest at a Russian government security exhibition in Moscow, which ‘focused on the demonstration of the results of state policy and achievements.’”
RIM is just one part of Putin’s strategy to develop a pro-Russian fifth column in the U.S. and the West more broadly.
Russia has become the ideological capital for white supremacists. As Portland State University lecturer Alexander Reid Ross puts it, “Russia has become a safe, central organizing hub for U.S. paramilitary fascist organizations and global fascist networks.”
more at
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