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Originally posted by corsair:
Seen through the lens of unconventional warfare...a lot of the lines are aligning to form a clearer picture. If you've been paying attention to these anarchist groups and those aligned with them since the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle, each civil unrest event continues to ratchet-up in its complexity.

A lot of this aligns with what I have been reading in the CIA Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency, available for download here. It's a general framework you have to put the pieces into, which the above person added details I did not know. The Guide is like learning how to read weather maps, so you can do your own weather forecasting. It does not tell you what will happen next, but does put events into perspective and shine light on what may happen next.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
The infiltration of the Anti-ICE signal chats is showing that elected and appointed government officials are involved and now can be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. They can ALL be charged for the death of Mr. Pretti.

That and threatening the insurrection act, federal troops, and arrest of Walz was probably enough to get him to play ball.

Walz is not doing this because he wants to be nice and help ICE. He has not other choice.

He shouldn't be given any choices. If they have enough to arrest him do it. "Playing ball" sounds like he's saving his skin. We can clean up his mess with him cooling his heels in a federal jail awaiting his hearing. This situation cannot continue this way very much longer.
A decision of either pull ICE out and take the loss or the entire thing needs to be brought down is going to need to be made soon. I trust Trump will not take the easy way.

I've done enough fighting with leftists (unions) to know that you can't back down ever. Backing down validates their methods and ensures they will keep doing it more and more.

I've seen entire factories with thousands of employees shut down because past management appeased the unions until things got so far out of hand they could not regain control.

Trump needs to break them and show the other city/states that won't cooperate what happens.

Financial investigation takes time to put the pieces together and get indictments. The Signal chats may take a lot more investigation to prove who the people are. If they have any brains they took steps to conceal their identities. The phones are all probably destroyed by now, since it's all over X-twitter now.

The RINOS are probably whining that it looks bad on TV. No, it looks bad if they let MN get away with it. We will see how much they cooperate and if it changes anything.

I would like to know who paid for the coffee and donuts.

Serious question. Was this taxpayer funded?

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
The infiltration of the Anti-ICE signal chats is showing that elected and appointed government officials are involved and now can be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. They can ALL be charged for the death of Mr. Pretti.

That and threatening the insurrection act, federal troops, and arrest of Walz was probably enough to get him to play ball.

On the prior page, I posted a Twitter link in regards to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and her being an admin for the chat group, but there is also "Boogie". There are those who claim that it is an insider nickname for Walz.

Yeah, I don't see the latest developments as us winning. I do think Trump is starting to see internal polls telling him we are dying from the TV coverage. It doesn't help that our guys on the ground think it's a turkey shoot. Hopefully it's just a recalibration and we don't actually back off Minneapolis. Walz looks like the guy who would call himself 'Boogie'.

I'm all broke up over this.

https://x.com/AFpost/status/20...s-registered-anti%2F

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Yeah, I don't see the latest developments as us winning. I do think Trump is starting to see internal polls telling him we are dying from the TV coverage. It doesn't help that our guys on the ground think it's a turkey shoot. Hopefully it's just a recalibration and we don't actually back off Minneapolis. Walz looks like the guy who would call himself 'Boogie'.

It's being reported Trump watched the news feeds all weekend and was unhappy with Bovino who is being replaced by Homan as we speak. He also wasn't happy with Noem and her framing of the situation. Hegseth has now approved facilities at Fort Snelling which is a historic Fort near MSP Intl. is going to be used as housing and a staging area for DHS and CBP people. This is a good move and indicates they aren't going anywhere. The loonies are going to have to find something else to do besides trash hotels they think the agents are at. Snelling is not a closed gate installation but Hegseth indicated it could easily become one.

Link

Another case for Darwinism, protestor picks up flashbang, starts at 1 min mark.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Yeah, I don't see the latest developments as us winning. I do think Trump is starting to see internal polls telling him we are dying from the TV coverage. It doesn't help that our guys on the ground think it's a turkey shoot. Hopefully it's just a recalibration and we don't actually back off Minneapolis. Walz looks like the guy who would call himself 'Boogie'.

It's being reported Trump watched the news feeds all weekend and was unhappy with Bovino who is being replaced by Homan as we speak. He also wasn't happy with Noem and her framing of the situation. Hegseth has now approved facilities at Fort Snelling which is a historic Fort near MSP Intl. is going to be used as housing and a staging area for DHS and CBP people. This is a good move and indicates they aren't going anywhere. The loonies are going to have to find something else to do besides trash hotels they think the agents are at. Snelling is not a closed gate installation but Hegseth indicated it could easily become one.

Rotating Bovino out may be a prudent move as he's been pretty high-profile since festivities started last year. He's been on the front-lines in various cities from Los Angeles, Chicago to DC serving as an overall tactical commander outside of the standard CBP command structure. While he may be very competent, bouncing around to different regions may in-fact be up-ending that region's command environment and countering whomever the local CBP authority is.

Right now he's red-meat for the talking-heads, which is ok he's got thick-skin. Rotate him out, take a breather, somebody else will be in command in MSP, he can contribute elsewhere as we'll need good command personnel once rioting-season warms up. Noem hasn't exactly been a shining-star, from what I hear from LEO's, while she enjoys showing up in the area of operations and being present to hear from incident commanders, she's not well versed in complex issues of this magnitude and needs to allow the local feds handle the overall talking points.

Hopefully, there's enough intel being gathered that key-figures will see indictments and arrests.

That woman is hurt! Quick, someone give her a hand!

Regarding the highly organized ‘insurgency’ recently discussed -

“Minnesota Insurrection: A Special Forces Operator Has Seen This 'From Anbar to Helmand' “

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundi...-to-helmand-n4948743

First four paragraphs -

"I’ve seen organized resistance up close," special forces veteran Eric Schwalm posted on Sunday, and "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',” he continued. "It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook."

"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."

Schwalm also noted that "the most sobering part" is that what he's seen in Minneapolis isn't just a note-for-note replay of what he fought a war against in the Middle East; "It’s domestic."

Also on X, the second link in this post -

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

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Originally posted by ridewv:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT...ed_video_watch_again

This (should be "former") member of the Minnesota House of Representatives is just hoping against hope that they'll kill him last. If he was in prison, where he belongs, he'd be a little safer.

It's pretty clear as it's been reported multiple times on various news sources (public and private) that most of the protestors are paid. These events are well coordinated, well supplied, and executed. That takes money.

Time to cut off the cash flow. Are all of these paid protestors filing accurate tax returns? Are they properly claiming these payments? Are they guilty of Tax Evasion? Don't laugh, it took down Capone.

You want this to end, kill the money flow. You'll see a remarkable drop in dedication if the cash stops.

What ever happened to the rule of explaining the content of links provided?

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
What ever happened to the rule of explaining the content of links provided?

Was/is that a rule? I honestly don't remember, but agree that a summary of the link should be provided.

The one I remember is that if you quote a news story or other source of information, then you provide a link.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
It's pretty clear as it's been reported multiple times on various news sources (public and private) that most of the protestors are paid. These events are well coordinated, well supplied, and executed. That takes money.

Time to cut off the cash flow. Are all of these paid protestors filing accurate tax returns? Are they properly claiming these payments? Are they guilty of Tax Evasion? Don't laugh, it took down Capone.

You want this to end, kill the money flow. You'll see a remarkable drop in dedication if the cash stops.

Who’s going to investigate it? Bondi? Patel?