7 Mar, 2023 10:35
Neo-Nazi brotherhood: How American friends of Ukrainian fascists plotted a terror attack in the US and the media ignored the story
In normal circumstances, the Atomwaffen’s plot in Baltimore should have been headline news
By Felix Livshitz.1/2
American far-right radicals – linked to neo-Nazis from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion – have been charged withconspiring to stage a terrorist attack in Baltimore, Maryland. However, US media reporting on the story does not mention connections between the group and the militants.
Additionally, the attempted terrorist act may only be the first signs of the threat that Azov members, and their foreign friends, pose to Western countries.
Failed plans
In early February, the US Justice Department announced the indictment of neo-Nazis Sarah Beth Clendaniel and Brandon Clint Russell forconspiracy to destroy energy substations in Baltimore. Authorities describe the pair’s plans as “driven by their ideology of racially-motivated hatred.” If convicted, they each face a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Beginning in June 2022, though possibly earlier, the pair plotted a series of attacksagainst substations using balloons and rifle fire with the goal of shorting out power transformersand depriving thousands of residents of light and heat. They specifically aimed to carry this out “when there is greatest strain on the grid” and energy demand was highest.
Russell shared maps of planned targets with Clendaniel, outlining how even low-level strikes on electrical substations could cause a “cascading failure” across Baltimore’s entire electricity grid, animpact that would be maximized by hitting multiple sitessimultaneously. Clendaniel envisioned the plan would “permanently completely lay this city to waste.” in supposedly encrypted messaging app chats.
To jail and back again
Russell is the founder of Atomwaffen Division, also known as the National Socialist Resistance Front, an international neo-Nazi terrorist network. In January 2018, he was jailed for possessing an unregistered destructive device and illegally storing explosives. An FBI bomb technician claimedthe material was sufficient to completely destroy an airliner and prosecutors say he planned to use it in terrorist attacks targeting civilians, nuclear facilities and synagogues across the US.
While in prison, Russell issued a video message to his followers thanking them for their “undying loyalty and courage,” and promising his incarceration would not stop Atomwaffen’s mission. He also provided them with bomb-making instructions.
“There is no room in this world for cowardly people,” he declared,quoting Adolf Hitler. “The sword has been drawn. There is no turning back.”
Despite such pronouncements and the fact Atomwaffen adherents both in the US and abroad carried out increasingly serious crimes while he was jailed, including multiple murders,Russell was released early from prison. Furthermore, he was not subject to any order banning him from contact with other members of his neo-Nazi fraternity.
It is just as remarkable that a federal bust of a domestic terror plot involving leading members of a group – who clearly pose ahuge threat to public safety – has basically been completely ignored by the mainstream media and US politicians alike. After all, President Joe Biden's administration has aggressively promoted the threat of far-right, racially-motivated extremism. Officials have even gone to the extent of carrying out secret social media witch-hunts targeting white conservatives to identify - or perhaps fabricate - evidence of this danger.
What accounts for the conspiracy of silence surrounding the indictment of Clendaniel and Russell? The incident should provide ample fodder for the White House, liberal pundits, and reporters. Theanswer may lie in Atomwaffen’s international connections – namely to Ukraine’s notorious, brutal Azov Battalion– and the inevitable consequences of Western training, funding and sponsorship of far-right elements in that Eastern European country for so many years.
https://www.rt.com/news/572355-azovs-american-friends-terrorists/
Here’s the answer on who’s attacking our energy grid, farms, food processing etc. It started in Jan 2021, so it seems like it was Joe’s plan from the beginning and use his Nazis from Ukraine. Why are these people not locked up and why did they let him out early?