The Rise Above Movement, Patriot Front and Azov Battalion
How These Movements Are Connected, Funded and Weaponized
I will be honest, January 6th has given me what some might call PTSD. We all witnessed the events that carried out that day and it’s a day none of us will forget. Jan6 has been dissected and analyzed on my show at nauseum and we all know bad actors from Antifa/BLM/FBI were embedded in the majority of peaceful MAGA folks. Fast forward to this past weekend a group of 31 Patriot Front members were arrested in Idaho and what was the reaction from majority of people? “Ah, the fedbois got caught again, look at those glowies.” I don’t blame people for having that take right away, but after digging on this group and the others we will discuss it’s simply not true. It doesn’t mean though, they aren’t leveraged for political gain for evil people to push radical change on the United States. I want to give 2 shout outs to my cohost’s on my Saturday night show Tom Forde and KH Farmer for doing a big part of the research for this. Their truth social links are linked to their names. Give them a follow. Let’s begin shall we.
As you all know in past articles I have written, to understand these groups we have to find patterns of behavior or what I was taught in school, modus operandi. We begin with the Rise Above Movement. The group was originally called the DIY Division but changed it’s name in 2017. This group is based out of Orange County and San Diego and their founder is Robert Rundo. To summarize their ideology, they are Neo Nazis that have a fight club. They train to engage in fights, hand to hand combat, ect. They believe in physically beating down their enemies.
This screenshot is from FBI criminal court documents from special agent Scott Bierwirth who was investigating this group in 2017 and 2018. Sauce
Now who was Rundo meeting specifically in the Ukraine? This brings us to Olena Semenyaka.
She has been described as the “first lady” of Ukrainian nationalism. Her pseudo-intellectualism and international networking with NeoFascist groups, as well as her guru-like command of the Azov movement in Ukraine, make her a formidable power behind the throne in the Kiev regime. Sauce
What business was discussed?
RAM was hosted by Olena Semenyaka, head of the National Corps, the political wing of the Azov Battalion, a unit of the Ukrainian National Guard with neo-Nazi and white supremacist affiliations.[20] Semenyaka later stated that Rundo and his compatriots “came to learn our ways” and “showed interest in learning how to create youth forces in the ways Azov has.”[21] During their visit, the RAM members joined the Azov Battalion for sparring at the Reconquista Club, an mixed martial arts (MMA) club affiliated with the group.[22] Rundo entered an MMA competition for white supremacists from across Europe, supposedly the first American to take part in the history of the event.[23] While in Kiev, Rundo also got a tattoo of the Viking warrior logo of White Rex, a clothing label founded by Russian MMA fighter and Azov Battalion associate Denis Nikitin.[24] –CISAC Sauce
Olena has a knack for radicalizing westerners as can be described from the FBI court records. She was dead set on these men, “learning their ways”.
https://scottdegroat.substack.com/p/the-rise-above-movement-patriot-front-d10?r=w0ott
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