WE DISCUSS TWO TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS THE BASE AND AWD

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're going to be looking at a very interesting
story on two groups called one's called the Base and
the other one is Adam Waffen Division, and they're both
Neo Nazi terrorist organizations, and they have ideologies that overlap
and tactics that are similar. The interesting thing about this
in regards to the FBI, Yes, one, they're being monitored

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by the FBI. But one of the leaders of the
Base is Ronaldo Nazarro, and he was a former FBI
agent and a Pentagon contractor, and his residents in Russia
raised suspicions of foreign influence, possibly as a Russian asslet.
These claims are unproven, but fuel distrust within the far

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right circles. The base's reliance on how online recruitment has
made vulnerable to what they call anti fascist leaks. The
Ottomwaffen As leadership is coming from Brandon Russell. He was
marred by his twenty seventeen arrests for possessing explosives, and
subsequent leaders struggled to maintain cohesion. The AWD ties to

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nine A and internal violence created instability. Its smaller size
made it less resilient to law enforcement pressure, so some
of the similarities and ideologies. Both groups are white supremacists,
anti Semitic, and accelerationists, which seek to hasten societal collapse
through violence to establish what they would call a white

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ethno state. They draw a lot of inspiration from texts
like the Turner Diaries and Siege and the idolized figures
like Timothy McVeigh. Both promote paramilitary training and advocate for
lone wolf attacks, assassinations, and infrastructure sabotage. The difference is
though the Base emphasizes a broader coalition of white supremacists

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aiming to unite various far right factions, its rhetoric often
focuses on preparing for a race war and a societal breakdown.
The AWDs more ideologically rigid, heavily centered on sieges, Apocoli
vision and occult influences, so they have ties to the
Nine A, which is the Order of Nine Angles, a
Satanist neo Nazi group that we'll look at in the future.

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Their rhetoric is also more nihilistic and glorifying modernism, so
you can almost look at it like a terrorist organization.
They both operate as a decentralized network of small cells
using encrypted platforms like telegram for recruitment and communication that
conduct in person vetting and paramilitary training to ensure member commitment.

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Membership is predominantly young, male and tech savvy, often radicalized
online differences. The BASE, again was founded by the former
FBI Ronaldo and Nazarro, while AWD was by Brandon Russell.
It actively recruits from other far right groups and has
a more organized vetting process. While the AWD their group

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splinter with some members forming the National Social National Socialist Order.
Wd's membership was smaller, about twenty to fifty core members
at its height, while the BASE is about fifty to
one hundred members at its peak, so both really small groups.
They both conduct military paramilitary hate camps to train members
and firearms explosives. They have plotted assassination attempts, mashed shootings,

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and infrastructure attacks. They use propagandas like videos and manifestos
to radicalize the differences. Though the BASE focuses on high
profile plots like attacking power grids or inciting chaos of
public events such as the Virginia gun rally plot, its
training camps, such as those in Washington and Georgia were
more frequent and structured. AWD is known for smaller scale

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but lethal actions, including murders and bomb plots. So notable
incidents include the twenty seventeen murder of two eight w
D members by a third in Florida over ideological disputes,
so law enforcement response. Both groups have been heavily infiltrated
by anti fascist activists and law enforcement, leading to arrests

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that disrupted their operations in the US. Neither though, is
designated as a foreign terrorist organization, of course, due to
their domestic nature. The base is designated a terrorist organization
by Canada and New Zealand. Arrests in twenty twenty one
Maryland and Georgia plots significantly weakened it, but it remains
active with reports of a planned twenty twenty five training event.

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The AWD not formally designated as a terrorist group by
any country, though its success or NSL is banned in Canada.
So again, the current status is the base is weakened
by arrests but still active, attempting to rebuild with reported plans.
Largely defunct is the AWD and that's it for now,