Thread by @4GWDOTDOTDOT

There's another of thinking about the "Boogaloo" movement and attempting to define it. In 1992, Yugoslavia had an army, the JNA. Then, one day, the Republika Srpska had an army. They changed patches. Suddenly, US intel was trying to build an order of battle database on these new

2/ units. What was obvious to me was not obvious to the rest of the intel community. Nobody fights for free. Not even Americans during the Revolutionary War. So, who was paying their salaries & pensions? Milosevic. That should have been blindingly obvious. The same with the

3/ Boogaloo. We have known since the 1990s that neo-Nazis were blending in without obvious Nazi tattoos. Muting their language to appeal to the conservative religious base of the GOP. All documented by scholars. How easy is it, really, to put on a Hawaiian shirt to disguise that

4/ you are really part of an organized militia unit or from a militia cell or neo-Nazi cell or a church militia cell? Or, you suddenly became political & concerned but not before spending $1200 for a rifle, another $750 for tactical kit, and who knows how much $$ for ammo? It is

5/ time for journalists, observers, and scholars to stop taking reality at face value. The reality of the Boogaloo movement may be two or three levels lower.