“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil”
https://x.com/schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540?s=46&t=c0rRJR1is3W18Q_d4CKZ7Q
@Mott-The-Hoople saidFAFO
“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a w ...[text shortened]... our own soil”
https://x.com/schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540?s=46&t=c0rRJR1is3W18Q_d4CKZ7Q
@Great-King-Rat saidAre the ICE agents enforcing laws?
Sounds good.
It takes structure and planning to truly fight fascism.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidYes, probably.
Are the ICE agents enforcing laws?
They’re also unlawfully executing people on the streets.
Wow, look at that! Two things can be true at the same time! It’s amazing!
@Mott-The-Hoople saidvery selectively. So they seemt o be open to break laws in order to enforce some.
Are the ICE agents enforcing laws?
@fornichessate removed their quoted post“ Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”
@Mott-The-Hoople saidHere's the playbook.
“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a w ...[text shortened]... our own soil”
https://x.com/schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540?s=46&t=c0rRJR1is3W18Q_d4CKZ7Q
https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015470423413047597
@Great-King-Rat saidWhy are these people on the streets with weapons?
Yes, probably.
They’re also unlawfully executing people on the streets.
Wow, look at that! Two things can be true at the same time! It’s amazing!
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThis is where your fascism makes you sound like a liberal.
Why are these people on the streets with weapons?
@Mott-The-Hoople saidA question you should probably ask your own Republican Party, the millions of defenders of the 2nd amendment and the massive American gun lobby.
Why are these people on the streets with weapons?
But yes, I understand that it must be frustrating that the 2nd amendment also allows your political opponents to carry a gun.
Maybe your orange baboon could change that?
@Great-King-Rat saidwhen has conservatives been on the street obstructing police from doing their job?
A question you should probably ask your own Republican Party, the millions of defenders of the 2nd amendment and the massive American gun lobby.
But yes, I understand that it must be frustrating that the 2nd amendment also allows your political opponents to carry a gun.
Maybe your orange baboon could change that?