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The film investigates the growing, global threat of militarized right-wing extremism. It explores how former and active-duty soldiers, mercenaries, and veterans are building international networks and using their combat experience to pose a dangerous threat to democratic societies worldwide.
Director: Dirk Laabs
Director: Dirk Laabs
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00:02A ex-senha dos carnais fantasia sobre um coelho.
00:08Os extremistas direitos no fronte.
00:15Algunos lutam por a Ucrânia e outros por a Rússia.
00:23Os veteranos americanos joinos os extremistas direitos.
00:30Se inscreva no canal e se inscreva no canal.
01:02A CIDADE NO BRASIL
01:37In 1995, veteran Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people during his deployment in Iraq, including 19 children.
01:46This is something that happens in places like Beirut. It's not something that's supposed to happen at home, but it
01:56has.
01:56One interesting aspect of those who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing is that they were in the military and
02:04received combat training.
02:07And Timothy McVeigh used some of that training to construct this truck bomb.
02:12McVeigh later explained that many people say to him,
02:24The topic of radicalization and the military is completely radioactive.
02:30These people have counterintelligence training, counterinsurgency training.
02:35They understand how to unnerve and destabilize an enemy.
02:40So, of course, it's a serious threat.
02:49We are here this morning to announce the arrest of Sarah Clandaniel and Brandon Russell.
02:57Clandaniel and Russell conspired and took steps to shoot multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore area,
03:05aiming to, quote, completely destroy this whole city.
03:12The FBI says Brandon Russell planned to open fire on electrical substations around Baltimore, which is 62% black.
03:21Their aim to spark chaos and a race war.
03:26One of the terrorists arrested in Maryland was also a former soldier.
03:31Why do former and even active soldiers become right-wing extremists?
03:37As an undercover FBI agent, Scott Payne has also exposed some of these soldiers.
03:43I had been in a group called The Base.
03:47I'm told to download the Wire app, told to contact Roman Wolf.
03:51It was clear that Roman Wolf was the leader.
03:55We knew that he was an American citizen, contracted in the Department of Justice.
04:00I knew he was former Army, Intel.
04:03I ended up doing an interview with a panel.
04:09What can you help us train on?
04:11That was huge for the base.
04:15I ended up going with hand-to-hand combat.
04:20They wanted military people because that was what the whole pitch was.
04:24We're a survivalist group.
04:28In the base, they had like one folder.
04:30It was called Rehoa 14, was the name of the file.
04:34It's a racial holy war.
04:36It is file after file.
04:39It might be Red Turner Diaries.
04:41It might be a dated U.S. Marine Corps manual.
04:44It might be how to shut down the infrastructure.
04:51There was a few members that were Army veterans.
04:55And if you've developed those beliefs, maybe you developed them while you were in the military.
05:00Maybe the unit you were in was segregated.
05:03And then that just starts pushing you down that hole.
05:07Emily Onchuk was also in the Army, like her father before her.
05:12Her brother, Andrew, belonged to a right-wing terrorist cell led by soldier Brandon Russell.
05:18Emily had persistently pushed her brother to leave the scene.
05:22In the end, he was murdered.
05:25The Army hadn't prepared her for that.
05:28So my great-grandfather was in the Italian Navy.
05:31My grandfather was in the U.S. Navy.
05:34My dad was a Navy pilot.
05:36Uncle was a Navy pilot.
05:37Godfather was a Navy pilot.
05:41Andrew, his whole life, had only ever wanted to be a soldier.
05:47At the age of 16, Emily's brother had sought contact with the then right-wing Azov Brigade
05:53fighting in Ukraine.
05:54He even interviewed some of its members.
05:57Today we have a live discussion with Andrew.
06:00He's an American nationalist.
06:02Does it feel to you that America has started to become more degenerative?
06:05They want people to have friendly opinions toward the immigrants, get rid of our borders,
06:12and bring in an infinite amount of Islamic immigrants.
06:16I think the biggest moment of crisis, at least for my mom,
06:19when Andrew told her that he was going to go fight with Azov in Ukraine,
06:26he had funneled money out of a PayPal account.
06:30On the same day, he bought tickets.
06:32He got a fake passport off the dark web.
06:35He had all my dad's old gear from Iraq.
06:41My mom, she's driving him home from high school because I don't think he could drive at the time,
06:46but he was ready to go be a mercenary.
06:49He told my mom,
06:50Hey, just so you know, I'm going to go fight in Ukraine,
06:53and I have a ticket, and here's my ride.
06:57I think he got cold feet.
07:07Russian neo-Nazis are also fighting in Ukraine.
07:10A reporter from Moscow, who is now in exile, has been researching this story for years.
07:15When I found myself reporting about the beginning of the war,
07:19I encountered the same people who knew from the Russian neo-Nazi circles popping up in Ukraine.
07:27They cooperate across the front line, they mingle with each other, even as they continue to fight.
07:34One says that Ukraine is closer to the neo-Nazi ideals, that Ukraine is the real Reich.
07:42And the other says, no, no, Putin is the real fuhrer, and the real Reich is in Russia.
07:49The difference was always about where the capital of the Fourth Reich should be,
07:54whether it should be Moscow or Kiev.
07:56Otherwise, it's pretty much the same.
08:02It was probably a couple of hundreds of neo-Nazi figures from Russia who settled down in Ukraine.
08:09By far, the most prominent personality is Sergei Korotkich.
08:13He helped to form the biggest Nazi platform that ever existed in Russia, known as NCO-NORD.
08:22They became a murderous gang which killed many, many people, primarily migrants.
08:31To which extent Korotkich was involved in those killings is hard to say,
08:35but he was trained in the crack troops of the Belarusian military intelligence.
08:41He knows how to kill.
08:46Korotkich was let go, and he went to Ukraine and became the head of reconnaissance in Azov battalion.
08:57He was famously granted Ukrainian citizenship by President Poroshenko.
09:07Neonazis are also fighting on the Russian side, including this man who leads the Rusich mercenary army.
09:23They still promote extreme violence and sadism, and in that sense they remain neo-Nazis.
09:34They call themselves nationalists, but they are internationalists.
09:39They want to spread their ideology across many nations.
09:44It doesn't matter whether you're Ukrainian or Russian.
09:47It's all the same to them.
09:49It's a movement which strives to unite the entire white race from North America to Australia via Europe.
10:00In other parts of Europe, authorities regularly have to investigate soldiers.
10:06The Waffenkraft group from France was particularly dangerous.
10:10So, in this group, there will be a moment of shift when Alexander Gillet will arrive in this group.
10:20He was first entered in the army in 2015.
10:23He is part of the army.
10:24He will become the chief.
10:26In this group, there is also Gauthier, who is 18 years old at the time, and whose father is lieutenant
10:34-colonel in the Army of the Air.
10:35So, everyone has a connection or a fascination with the army or the security services.
10:44It was the weekend of July 14th of 2018, where they will find themselves in a forest near Tours.
10:52And they will train for three days for shooting.
10:57So, in fact, the authorities, the gendarmes, were warned by one of the members of the Waffenkraft group.
11:04They said, there is an attack that is prepared, it is dangerous, etc.
11:11The police arrested the men when the leader of the group obtained a lorry driving license.
11:17The man wanted to imitate Islamist attacks, but he was also motivated by right-wing extremist terrorists.
11:25Among them were people like Brandon Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in New Zealand in 2019.
11:31Gillet, he was seen by a judge after Brenton Tarrant. He said, it would have been me.
11:37The Islamist attack on the Bataclan Club in Paris in 2015 was also a source of inspiration for Alexandra Guillet.
11:45Alexander Guillet, in fact, told one of his colleagues of the group that he wanted to do worse than Bataclan,
11:52that for him, a successful attack was a attack where there would be more than 50 deaths.
11:59In his declaration of war, during his auditions, he said that he followed what Breivik said,
12:06that he was attacking the power. And so, for him, the power is the Jews.
12:11On the 22nd of July, 2011, Norwegian right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik murdered 77 young people.
12:20Gillet praised this in his declaration of war.
12:23The extremist ex-soldier was ultimately sentenced to 18 years in prison.
12:32Elsewhere in Germany, an officer in a reconnaissance unit was arrested in 2017.
12:38His name was Franco Albrecht, and he had received training in France at an elite army university.
12:45He was planning terrorist attacks in Germany. In fact, Franco Albrecht scouted the garage of a foundation that works with
12:54migrants.
12:55He had noted down number plates and procured weapons.
12:59A military officer takes a double life. He has taken the identity of a syrian refugee.
13:06He holds weapons and has a list of high-ranking politicians names.
13:10The trial of the 33-year-old judge must be under the ground for five years.
13:19Franco Albrecht is not alone. Other officers in European armies have been suspected of right-wing extremism.
13:33There is one particularly explosive case in Spain.
13:38Within the Spanish army, there was a movement called Citizens in Uniform.
13:48They found this Captain Antonio Meroño Jiménez. He was an instructor at the General Academy for Air Force Officials in
14:01Madrid.
14:02He was an admirer of Hitler. He was carrying all the Nazi paraphernalia in demonstrations.
14:11He was in official parades doing this sign, the SS.
14:20They began to look at the social chats and found out that he was given as a birthday present by
14:29his comrades,
14:30a real Iron Cross of the Wehrmacht.
14:38Citizens in Uniform, they went into some member of parliament and said,
14:44please show this to the Minister of Defence.
14:48More than 100 pages of evidence, of photographs, of documents.
14:53And what did the Ministry of Defence? Nothing.
15:01I gave my information to the Euro parliament and several members of parliament there,
15:09asked the main NATO commanding officer, no answer.
15:14Later, he was upgraded. He got a very special position in the main jet fighters' base in Spain,
15:23where you have the top gun academy for the NATO forces.
15:29In that base, he is chief intelligence officer.
15:33He not only has access to all that,
15:36he gives clearance to other people to have access to all that secret NATO documents.
15:45All of us are demanding the Spanish government to take it seriously.
15:51And they say they take it seriously.
15:53But of course they are lying.
15:55They are just scared.
15:56They don't want to have any problems with the military.
15:59The word is appeasement.
16:02But this passivity has consequences.
16:05What I found out were chats with officers that were ranking officers within the armed forces,
16:13war, Nazi, and they were openly talking about that they should go back into power.
16:20They even discussed in plans to bomb the Catalan parliament,
16:25saying, I really want to divert fighter jet and bomb their parliament.
16:32They even shared in that chat a petition to Trump when he was president of the United States,
16:41asking the United States to throw down the Spanish government.
16:47Right-wing extremist soldiers, veterans, and police officers.
16:52A prominent problem in the USA, which has been part of countless wars in recent decades.
16:58Sociologist Peter Simme has been researching the scene of white right-wing extremists for years.
17:05One of the most effective ways to study white supremacists is to spend time with people in natural settings.
17:12I eventually lived with a family in Southern California.
17:21The husband was playing in a white supremacist band.
17:25They had three young children, and I babysat their kids.
17:30Probably about a year into the fieldwork, I showed up at my main contact's home,
17:35and the stranger opened the door.
17:38I remember Paige being, from the get-go, quite friendly.
17:43He explained to me how he got radicalized during his time in the military.
17:49In Fort Bragg, he met somebody who was already a neo-Nazi.
17:53That person introduced him to white-powered music, gave him literature.
17:57Violence is ever kind of present.
18:01What we do know is, with a culture like this, that promotes and encourages violence, there will be violence.
18:07The complicated part is trying to figure out which one is going to act on what the culture says you
18:12should do.
18:19Paige decides to leave California.
18:22He moves around, and eventually ends up in Milwaukee, where he finds a large Sikh community.
18:36My grandparents were ex-military, and then farmers.
18:40The day-to-day grind of working the field, it's a very difficult life.
18:44There was a lot of reasons to leave at that time.
18:51I think about my parents, the bravery that they must have to come over.
18:57My father worked at a factory for a while.
18:59My mother also worked for $3 an hour, $4 an hour.
19:03I watched them struggle.
19:06You know, when they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country,
19:12they're poisoning the blood of our country.
19:15That's what they've done.
19:17Hardeep's parents were some of those who helped build the Sikh community in Milwaukee.
19:26At that time, we could just drop our kids off at the temple that particular morning.
19:32I wanted just to get my daughter here to Sunday school, and then run some errands.
19:37And as soon as we got to the freeway, she's kind of like,
19:40Dad, I forgot my notebook at the house, and I didn't want her to get in trouble.
19:45So we did turn around.
19:46And one of the most vivid memories that I have of that day is this joyous six-year-old,
19:54who's got a smile.
19:55She realizes that she's a priority.
19:59We get onto the freeway, and we start to see those squad cars driving by us.
20:13Right outside the temple, that's when the police officer was barricading it off,
20:18and he lets us know that there's been a shooting.
20:25Wade Page, armed with a nine-millimeter handgun,
20:29ear buds in, walked into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and opened fire.
20:37Hello?
20:40And killed six individuals.
20:45My dad, he was able to fight off this white supremacist gunman with a butter knife.
20:52And he unfortunately lost that battle.
20:59When he exited the temple, Page was using the car as a shield.
21:04You think the military training come into play there, methodically shooting.
21:12Officer down.
21:13The officer also wounded Page, hit him in the stomach.
21:16Page went down and then shot himself in the head.
21:20The terrorist attack irreversibly changed the community and Pardeep's family forever.
21:26Ten years after the attack, his daughter addresses the murderer, Wade Page.
21:33Wade Michael Page, 1971 to 2012.
21:38Army veteran, neo-Nazi, monster.
21:42A ticking time bomb of rage.
21:46From American patriot to American terrorist with trauma beyond their brain's boundaries.
21:52Fighting war after war.
21:54This time, the racial holy war.
21:57A pseudo-religion for the white cause is a description for it.
22:04Page, he said, look, things are upside down in the military.
22:08He started seeing that blacks were getting promotions over whites when they didn't deserve it.
22:14What he told me was, is if you don't go into the army as a racist, you're sure to come
22:18out as one.
22:19We go back to the founding of the Ku Klux Klan after the U.S. Civil War, founded by former
22:25Confederate officers.
22:27At every point in time in U.S. history, if you look at the U.S. military, there's been the
22:31presence of white supremacists.
22:39I wanted to be in the military my entire life.
22:41It was the only thing I ever planned on doing.
22:46I joined the army to kill people.
22:49I joined the army to kill Iraqis, to kill Muslims.
22:53Chris Goldsmith, a veteran of the last Iraq war, would suffer years of disorientation,
22:59coming close to joining some extremist groups himself.
23:02But he turned his life around in time, and is now fighting on another front.
23:07I've chosen for this part of my life, my career is hunting Nazis.
23:13Like, if you're filled with rage, that's a pretty good job.
23:17Fighting back against neo-Nazis, for myself, for my family, for my friends, for every other American.
23:26It helps me make sense of the anger.
23:37Chris Buckley, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, joined the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan after his deployment.
23:45He managed to get out, and now helps other radicals leave the movement.
23:53I'll always be angry.
23:55Like, once you go through combat, and you experience the hell of war, there's no forgetting it.
24:03I know what it feels like to be in the darkness.
24:06I know what it feels like to have your demons wake you up in the middle of the night rattling
24:09the fucking chains.
24:11You know?
24:12Chris struggled for a long time with an injury he suffered in the army.
24:18It led him to drugs.
24:21He's now clean, and smokes nothing else but his own whiskey.
24:27But it was a long road.
24:29The doctor writes me a prescription for 180 OxyContin, 80 milligrams, with three refills a month.
24:37I would make a pocket in my shirt and pour out a couple of pills in the shirt and just
24:42eat them.
24:43Eventually, I realized that if I crushed them up, I could snort them.
24:50You're in active addiction.
24:53My kids are getting a little older.
24:55I can't take care of bills at home.
24:57Support my drug addiction.
24:59You're just, you're drowning.
25:03So, a lot of people think KKK.
25:06They think torches and burning crosses, right?
25:09It's nothing like that in the beginning.
25:12Just like any other gang, they're involved in the drug trade.
25:16And it was like, hey man, I know you're struggling.
25:20Here's some boxing clothes.
25:22Here's a couple bags of groceries.
25:24But what it is, is it's a recruitment technique.
25:26So, I start to tend barbecues.
25:31Now, I start to hear this perverted version of Christianity.
25:37I start to buy into it because I'm a junkie.
25:40My mind doesn't work right.
25:42My heart's black as coal.
25:45Buckley even took his son to the Ku Klux Klan.
25:49Because of my experience with weapons and tacticalness and being able to train,
25:54I started out as what they call a nighthawk, which is the security section of the KKK.
26:01I was really good at that.
26:08I was living the lifestyle of violence, sex, drugs.
26:14Like, I was a rock star.
26:24With the mindset of having been deeply personally betrayed by the government,
26:30I found myself with nothing to do.
26:33I spent a ton of time on the internet.
26:37Just before I deployed to Iraq, I remember being told that the order had come down
26:41when not looking for weapons of mass destruction.
26:43The whole reason that I was there was based on a lie.
26:47I went from the Iraq war is based on a lie to 9-11 was an inside job.
26:53Like, the algorithmic rabbit hole.
26:57Well, I've been warning you about it for at least five years.
27:01All terrorism that we've looked at has been government actions.
27:05They're either using provocateur Arabs and allowing them to do it.
27:08The evidence is overwhelming.
27:09Now, I've become basically an anti-government extremist and a conspiracy theorist.
27:19Thankfully, I didn't have older Nazis pushing me in a more harmful direction.
27:26Because with that anger that I carried, I was in a state where I was easy to manipulate.
27:38There's no shortage of people that are suffering.
27:41There's no shortage of people that are angry.
27:44When you can tie their suffering to your cause and provide relief,
27:49you've got them, hook, line, and sinker.
27:52Find the need.
27:54Find the injury.
27:57Exploit it.
27:58Take care of it.
28:00It's slowly indoctrinated.
28:02It's all about where you're harvesting, right?
28:11I love targeting veterans because I can identify with veterans.
28:16The probabilities of being able for a veteran recruiter to bring in another veteran
28:21are ten times higher than somebody that's not a veteran bringing in somebody else that's not a veteran.
28:32Yeah, I grew up in the global war on terror. That was my whole upbringing.
28:37I watched my dad go off to Iraq and Afghanistan.
28:40I wanted to know, like, why are we there?
28:43Dan, he's like, it's just a money pit.
28:45It's just a money pit.
28:47And I thought once I got there and I saw things, like, everything would make sense,
28:51and these wars that we've been fighting for 20 years wouldn't be in vain,
28:54and the lives we lost and the lives we took, like, it would all make sense.
28:58And the more and more I saw, the less and less everything made sense.
29:02The only time I've incurred violence is because of things that were existing within our own country
29:08that we never talk about.
29:09Like this wild hypocrisy that I was living in.
29:13I think there's plenty at home that we need to take care of right now.
29:18Like other countries, the USA was warned early on about right-wing extremist veterans and soldiers.
29:29In January of 2007, we received a call from the Capitol Police
29:34stating that there was a young senator who was African American
29:38and that he would soon be announcing his run for presidency.
29:43We did not see any threats at the time.
29:49When Barack Obama actually won the Democratic nomination, that's when the threats started coming in.
29:56Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president!
30:02We started this huge research project, The Gathering Storm,
30:07because it was a convergence of a downturn in the economy,
30:11the election of the first African American president,
30:14returning veterans to create this perfect storm.
30:20Once Barack Obama won the 2008 election, we have a brand new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet
30:27Napolitano.
30:29Myself and the FBI briefed her on the assessment that I had written with my team of analysts.
30:35The team clearly warned against veterans as potential terrorists.
30:40The internal paper was leaked to the media.
30:43During a news program, I overheard that DHS had released this new report warning of right-wing extremism.
30:54Extremists recruiting U.S. veterans to take advantage of their military training.
30:59Veterans are trained to fight terrorism, not to join terrorism.
31:05Once the leak happened, all hell had broken loose.
31:12To be frank with you, the topic of radicalization and the United States military is completely radioactive.
31:19Part of the reason why we've never had a solid response to it is because people get very upset very
31:27quickly.
31:28Veterans groups are demanding an apology, saying that Americans aren't the enemy, terrorists are the enemy.
31:34I was very disappointed in how the Department of Homeland Security caved into political pressure within days.
31:42They were issuing an apology to veterans organizations. They also disbanded my unit.
31:47The group had explicitly forewarned against radicalized veterans.
31:52That these soldiers had formed an anti-government militia and killed two people to keep it all secret.
31:58A U.S. soldier is accused of helping plan a deadly ambush on his own army unit.
32:05This threat continued to grow month after month, year after year. The body count starts going up.
32:13Scott Payne had managed to infiltrate the right-wing extremist terrorist group, the base for the FBI, which was headed
32:20by a former soldier.
32:22You know, they'd been looking at some targets who were anti-fash.
32:26One of the most dangerous members of the base was the inconspicuous Luke Lane.
32:32He had the perfect cover, because he looks like a normal person in society.
32:35He was an IT specialist with a job. He's got a girlfriend.
32:40He said, bring your weapons and ammo. I said, hey, what are we doing?
32:45And he looked at me and he said, we're going to whack some people. It's an Antifa couple.
32:50And you got to understand how much research this guy had done.
32:53Vaseline over your eyebrows, facial hair, so nothing falls off.
32:57He said he wanted me to come with him, go down and kill the couple.
33:00And as we're driving out there, he says, hey man, if you don't mind, I want to pop my cherry
33:04on this one.
33:04I actually want to put a bullet in one of them's head.
33:06I go, why are you so haste?
33:10Because we don't know if there's any dogs, we don't know if there's any kids.
33:13And without even missing a beat, he said, I don't have a problem killing commie kids.
33:19And he's like, I'm just tired of waiting.
33:21And man, I've been dreaming about this for two years.
33:24He's been wanting to kill somebody for two years.
33:27It's almost like a drug addict, you know, they're looking, I need the fix right now.
33:32Scott alerts his team, and a trap is set.
33:37I pick him up, we go to lunch, and then I acted like my truck was having trouble, and I
33:41got out of the car and the SWAT team came over the hill.
33:43Everything went down good, no shots fired.
33:47The FBI's investigation reveals that the base had been recruiting members all over the world.
33:52They also had members outside the USA, even as far as Estonia.
33:58One kid in Europe ended up being like the youngest to ever be charged with domestic terrorism.
34:06He was like 13 years old, but it was off of the base stuff.
34:08But the leader of the group, Roman Wolf, who had recruited Scott and many others, managed to escape the FBI.
34:15An American citizen, former army, apparently speaks Russian, and now all of a sudden he resides in Russia, and he's
34:23still out there.
34:27More and more neo-Nazis with contacts in Russia are receiving weapons training and learning how to kill.
34:36Especially in Ukraine, intelligence services in Europe are alarmed.
34:43We have also had people from right-wing groups in Austria who have fought in Ukraine.
34:52This is a problem for us as a security department, because these people come back with a similar fight experience.
34:58Nazis from Germany are also fighting in Ukraine. The exact number is unknown.
35:03If you carry on terrorist attacks, you can also take more victims.
35:09Russian volunteers are also fighting for Ukraine, with a neo-Nazi at their front.
35:15Do you mind being described as a neo-Nazi?
35:18I don't think it's an insult. This war starts, and all those bad neo-Nazis all of a sudden turn
35:24into what?
35:25Patriots, freedom fighters. So, did anything change about us? No. Everything changed about your perception.
35:30Denis Kapustin is his original surname. He grew into currently probably the most important far-right figure of Russian origin
35:40in Ukraine.
35:41He was raised in Germany, where he emigrated when he was very young, and became the head of what is
35:49known as the Russian volunteer corps.
35:52The other aspect is that these people were promoting the idea of white terrorism.
35:59Back in 2019, especially around the Christchurch attack, platforms like Votenjugend in Kyiv, they ran Brenton Tarn's manifesto.
36:10It's an 80-page document which was translated into Russian, quite possibly before the attack happened.
36:15They were publishing manifestos of other white terrorists in the United States and, of course, of Breivik.
36:25War veterans who glorify right-wing terrorists, modern weapons galore.
36:31Truly a nightmare scenario.
36:33On one occasion, the Russian volunteer corps was boasting about new Belgian-made rifles that they received, NATO weapons.
36:46In the end, the war will hopefully end up soon.
36:50And many modern weapons will be free.
36:54The organized criminalization has a high interest to bring these weapons accordingly on the market.
37:01Also for terrorist obligations, also for the right extremism, as well as for the Islamic extremism.
37:11Ultimately, these people, they are like angels of apocalypse.
37:16All they want is more war.
37:25Seeing people killed, seeing people killing each other, the constant presence of death, all these things can change many veterans,
37:33and it can make them vulnerable to influence.
37:39It became my job to photo document everything that my unit did.
37:43Most days were boring and nothing happened.
37:47But in May of 2005, we got a call to go respond to some bodies being found.
37:52And we got there in time to see locals digging up freshly murdered victims of torture.
38:05It became my responsibility to take photographs, ostensibly, to find justice for these victims of murder.
38:15And at 19 years old, it was not something I was prepared for.
38:19That mass grave, that smell was inescapable.
38:23Like every minute of every day, I would smell it.
38:31I was a horizontal light combat engineer.
38:35We breach obstacles, enemy obstacles.
38:40It was a day like any other day.
38:42We get to a dried up riverbed called a Wadi.
38:45Very rocky, just unstable.
38:47The guy who was leading the convoy called back and said,
38:50Hey, I want you guys to get out and tighten them binders down.
38:53My comrade got out of the vehicle and took the first round over his left eye.
39:04One eye that didn't swell completely shut from the impact of the trauma.
39:09It slowly was looking around like the eye was moving, right?
39:14You see the jaw tense.
39:17He's trying to breathe, guys.
39:18You know what I mean?
39:21I'm very much used to the outdoors, hunting, fishing.
39:26I've seen what happens when something dies.
39:29There's a lot of muscular reaction that doesn't necessarily mean that the animal's alive.
39:36It just means that its body was cut short really quick.
39:41And there's nothing you can do.
39:49I was coming home from war and then training for war.
39:53I would buy plastic bottle of vodka, super cheap.
39:57My roommates would find me in the shower under scalding hot water.
40:01It took me years of therapy to figure out that what I was doing was trying to burn that smell
40:07out of my body.
40:12It's just a matter of time.
40:15You're either going to kill yourself or kill somebody else if you don't get help.
40:19There's a lot of anger, a lot of hatred that's bubbling up.
40:22I would try to overdose because I felt like it would be painless.
40:27It would be easier than putting a gun to my head.
40:33The night before what would have been my second deployment, I attempted suicide.
40:38I found out that my contract with the military was going to be involuntarily extended.
40:44I didn't just attempt suicide to end my life.
40:49I attempted suicide to give my life meaning.
40:54A veteran doesn't benefit the country anymore.
40:58So that's why veteran suicide is 22 plus a day.
41:03A day.
41:04That's a school bus of people.
41:06And we don't care.
41:08The only fucking people that care are other veterans care or extremists.
41:13You know?
41:13Hey, dude, you're already on the fence.
41:15You're going to kill yourself anyway.
41:17Why not put some use into you for my own purpose?
41:20Go shoot up this school.
41:21Go shoot up this mosque.
41:23Go blow up this synagogue.
41:24You get to take out a lot of that anger and you'll still get suicide.
41:32In elf deutschen Bundesländern sind an diesem Mittwochmorgen
41:36mehr als 25 mutmaßliche Rechtsextreme und Reichsbürger
41:40wegen Umsturzplänen festgenommen worden.
41:47It was the plan to attack this building.
41:50It was the plan to attack this building.
41:50Then you wanted to kill people and kill people.
41:55All this is handled in various courts.
41:59Important members of the terrorist cell were former leading officers in the German armed forces.
42:05They also wanted to overthrow the federal government.
42:09One of the suspects was a former high ranking officer who had led the foreign missions of the German special
42:15forces unit KSK for many years.
42:18He had become radicalized during the pandemic.
42:24Man sollte das KSK mal nach Berlin schicken und hier ordentlich aufräumen.
42:29Dann könnt ihr mal sehen, was die können.
42:31Maximilian Eater always defended his unit.
42:34At times, at least 40 right wing extremists fought in the KSK alone.
42:39Zwei Jahre auf Bewährung.
42:41Mit diesem relativ milden Urteil ist ein KSK-Soldat heute in Leipzig davon gekommen.
42:46Der Elite-Soldat hatte als Ausbilder einer Truppe zwei Kilo Sprengstoff, Granaten und mehrere tausend Schuss Munition in seinem Garten
42:54gehortet.
42:56The police found a bazooka and lots of various Nazi memorabilia amongst the soldiers' quarters, including an SS-Songbook.
43:04However, the KSK instructor was unaware of any wrongdoing.
43:10Das sind alles Burschen und jetzt auch Mädels, die nur rechtsradikal wären.
43:15Das KSK ist ein Kommando mit unglaublichen in der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannten Verdiensten.
43:22Das sind alles Dinge die Regierung verheimlicht.
43:25The terrorist cell was prepared to kill for their ideology.
43:29Its members were led to believe that the government was part of a satanic cult.
43:46Maximilian Eder explained to the court that the secret KSK missions abroad had left him traumatized.
43:52In meinem Afghanistan-Einsatz vor drei Jahren, sinnloser Einsatz für 20 Jahre lang und dafür wurden zu laden, verbraten, missbraucht.
44:08Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz erstellt regelmäßig einen Bericht über Verfassungsfeinde jeglicher Couleur in den Reihen von Sicherheitsbehörden.
44:18Man sieht auch, es gibt noch Probleme, die sind nicht von heute auf morgen weg.
44:25The many extremists who were expelled from KSK must now be permanently monitored by counter-terrorism units.
44:32A group of these dangerous individuals has already scouted out Berlin's water supply.
44:53Aurelien Chapeau wanted to attack a synagogue in 2022.
44:58Another soldier.
45:14Just like in Germany, soldiers in France are also turning against their own state.
45:20Conspiracy theorist Rémy Dayer wanted the help of these soldiers in order to launch an assault on the presidential palace
45:27and parliament.
45:29The police is serious because Rémy Dayer managed to assemble about 300 militants, including militaires and policiers.
45:41January 6, 2021.
45:43Veterans and extremists march on the Capitol.
45:46Cut their head off!
45:48If you voted for treason, we're gonna drag your ass through the streets.
45:53They're not veterans, we are.
45:58It brought me back to being 16 years old and seeing the towers fall in New York.
46:04And there was nothing I could have done about it.
46:08In the case of January 6, I literally watched them in real time from the perspective of the insurrectionists.
46:14The idea of overthrowing government with the help of right-wing extremists and veterans is also finding fertile ground in
46:22South America.
46:23The South America.
46:24I had spent pretty much five years in a dark hole after getting out of the military.
46:29After that, I went to school.
46:31I found community there.
46:33Student Veterans of America.
46:36I practically lived in the halls of Congress, meeting lawmakers to try to get them to help veterans.
46:44A buddy of mine that I served with in the army had seen photos of me.
46:48And he called me up and said,
46:49Hey, Goldie, I joined a neo-Nazi organization and I want you to help me take him down.
46:56I had infiltrated a couple of extremist organizations, neo-Nazi organizations, unlawful militias.
47:04Within days, I was in the 3% security force.
47:12I was recording their audio of them discussing storming the Georgia State Capitol months before.
47:18They were actively training with live ammunition to clear the Capitol.
47:25I was already an FBI informant.
47:27I was handing over intelligence packets.
47:30At the time, Donald Trump's America chose not to act when faced with all of the warning signs.
47:38It wasn't just that so many veterans were involved in the violence of January 6th.
47:42It's that they were involved in organizing it.
47:46It was veterans who were the ones who made the violence happen.
47:54A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Joseph Biggs to 17 years in prison.
48:00The former army paratrooper and leader of the far right Proud Boys is one of the most prominent defendants.
48:06With the backing of figures like Steve Bannon, former Navy officer.
48:11Guys like Mike Flynn, disgraced former general, whipping up the crowds.
48:16We decide the election of the President of the United States.
48:19And it is their veteran status that lent credibility to their lies that led to people dying that day.
48:28Behind that were months and years of training to radicalize these people.
48:36To literally be lined up like cannon fodder to go make their revolution happen.
48:46The idea of overthrowing the government with the help of right wing extremist soldiers and veterans is also finding fertile
48:54ground in South America.
49:03This one could feel a little bit like deja vu, supporters of a former president storming the Capitol over accusations
49:11of election fraud.
49:20There are some similarities with the case of the Capitol.
49:24The mobilization factors, the strategies used, the discredit of the electoral process, the conspiracy theories.
49:32But it was not a mere reproduction.
49:35Bolsonaro, a former former army captain, has for years claimed the country's voting machines were faulty.
49:56Bolsonaro is from a military background. He was on the army for almost two decades.
50:03It's now a militarized country.
50:05Brazil had more military than women in key positions.
50:14Bolsonaro got connected also to paramilitary groups.
50:17Weapons and ammunition has been deviated from traditional barracks to those groups.
50:24Bolsonaro praising those militias, saying they are the future.
50:28Because with a strong hand, those guys will be able to get rid of the bandits on the street level.
50:43And they are quite vocal that force should be used to protect the family and somehow weapons are the best
50:50answer.
50:51When you have a traditional army and a paramilitary group with the same far-right authoritarian thought, saying that we
50:58somehow have to save the country.
51:00This is scary and this is still around.
51:05Completionate directly,....
51:06Slowly those far-right militia infiltrating statehood bureaucracy.
51:10They are electing congressmen.
51:12O Estado está lentamente integrando esses grupos dentro deles.
51:17Está lentamente se tornando o Estado.
51:29Ativistas extremistas de esquerda estão tentando infiltrar e controlar o Estado.
51:33Isso não é um perigo contagiado apenas para o Brasil.
51:37Nós olhamos uma lista de informação e nós olhamos um lista de membros de 38,000 inscritos,
51:45pessoas que pagam dinheiro para o Oath Keepers.
51:47O Oath Keepers é uma organização de governo,
51:52principalmente, eles recrutam para o milita- e-mail.
51:56O que é o Oath Keepers visão para a América?
51:59Isso inclui tentando conseguir o caminho de liga,
52:05de desculpa, de desculpa, de intimidação,
52:07e a perpétência da violência.
52:16A lota de pessoas, eu acho, foram surpresas
52:18de como o o Oath Keepers
52:22profundo a mensagem dos Oath Keepers
52:23entrou em nossas instituições.
52:27Há mais 1,000 former law enforcement
52:30na lista que nós olhamos.
52:32Militar profissionais,
52:33um número shocking.
52:36Há mais 300,
52:38o que nós acreditamos ser a current law enforcement.
52:43Pessoas em posições de poder
52:45têm uma maior parte de responsabilidade
52:48de não normalizar isso.
52:50O Oath Keepers foi sentenced
52:52a 18 anos em prisão
52:54para o seu papel em torno da capital.
52:56Trump pardoned him in 2025.
52:59Eu tenho certeza.
53:00Eu tenho certeza.
53:02O que você quer dizer a Trump agora?
53:03Eu tenho certeza.
53:04Em 2016, eu declaro,
53:07eu sou a sua voz.
53:09Hoje eu adiço,
53:10eu sou a sua justiça.
53:13E para aqueles que foram errados
53:16e pergadados,
53:17eu sou a sua retribuição.
53:19Eu sou a sua retribuição.
53:23Eu sou a sua retribuição.
53:26Eu sou a sua retribuição.
53:50Eu sou a sua retribuição.
53:52Quando você tem um líder
53:53como Donald Trump
53:54dizendo,
53:56e encorajando,
53:57e promovendo,
53:58e a sua retribuição
53:58a violência
53:59como ele tem,
54:00nós estamos em um
54:01muito perigoso.
54:03Quando Trump foi
54:04first elected,
54:05precipitou uma escalada
54:07em far-right violência,
54:09tudo começando com os riots
54:11em Charlottesville
54:11em 2017,
54:13até o ataque em Pittsburgh
54:15em 2018,
54:17culminando com o ataque
54:18na capital em 2021.
54:20We've kind of reached
54:21this point of no return
54:22because these cycles
54:23of right-wing extremism
54:26has now taken
54:27a new deadly turn.
54:29We're not going to see
54:29any reprieve
54:31in this type of violence
54:32anytime soon.
54:34Donald Trump
54:35appointed Pete Hegseth
54:36as Secretary of Defense,
54:38a man who has been documented
54:39as describing Islam
54:41as the enemy of the West.
54:43We haven't seen a president
54:44have the kind of relationship
54:46that he has with extremists
54:48of any kind,
54:49for that matter.
54:50This does keep me up
54:52at night,
54:52and I feel deeply troubled
54:55by our inability
54:58to counter this effectively.
55:09Political violence right now?
55:11Man,
55:13like,
55:13it's just a matter of time.
55:15It's a powder keg.
55:21The right-wing online warriors
55:23are also still standing by.
55:30We're talking about a massive
55:32underground
55:33that's mobilized on social media
55:37and that will act
55:38if their leader tells them to.
55:41The leader being Trump.
55:44If 1% of those people
55:46start to justify violence,
55:48we are dealing with a
55:49terrorism problem
55:50on an enormous scale.
55:53I think you're likely to see
55:55far more aggressive efforts
55:57to cleanse this city
56:00of the people
56:01who have stood
56:02against his agenda.
56:05Their goal
56:07is to burn the whole thing down
56:10and rebuild
56:11a fascist Reich
56:13in the aftermath.
56:14of death.
56:20I don't want people
56:22to feel like
56:23it's got to take a civil war
56:24to solve the problem.
56:27We're not there yet,
56:29but if we don't fight back,
56:31we lose.
56:32We're not there yet,
57:00but if we don't fight back,
57:09A CIDADE NO BRASIL
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