It may not be politically correct to do so, but someone in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actually posed the question, whether the “racially-motivated white extremists” working with Ukraine’s neo-Nazi militia are learning new methods and techniques to be brought home to the U.S. The Grayzone published a May 31 story by Alexander Rubinstein, based upon a DHS document obtained via a FOIA request by “Property of the People.” The DHS categorizes them as “RMVE-WS,” or “racially-motivated violent extremists – white extremists.” The details sound like a crazy movie script.
First, Rubinstein notes that “Property of the People” shared the DHS document with Politico, but the latter downplayed and/or discredited the material, including their preface that “critics say” the DHS material “echoes one of the Kremlin’s top propaganda points.” That is, it might be true, but it is one of those truths that civilized people have learned to ignore.
One learns that there are about 30 Americans attached to a Ukrainian militia group entitled the “Georgian National Legion (GNL), assumedly due to the role of Georgian warlord Mamuka Mamulashvili in heading the unit. They are a not insignificant component in the weapons pipeline into non-standard military units in Ukraine. One figure, Paul Gray, who spent two months with GNL, had served several tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. He’s been a member of various violent racist groups – the “American Vanguard,” “Atomwaffen Division,” and “Patriot Front.” The latter was founded by Thomas Rousseau, after his previous group, “Vanguard,” was involved in violence at Charlottesville, VA, in 2017. (The car that plowed into the protestors, killing one, was driven by a Vanguard member.) Gray followed Rousseau into first one, then the other of his groups. In early 2021, Gray opened a gym in Kiev, attracting martial arts enthusiasts, and trained Ukrainian volunteers in U.S. military techniques. Later, Gray and his associate, Manus McCaffery, “worked together as a team targeting Russian tanks and vehicles with US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles.” Gray appeared on several Fox broadcasts as a nameless patriotic American volunteering to confront the Russkies, until his identity was made known.
