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Former Green Beret : "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."
X ^ | 01/25/2026 | Eric Schwalm

Posted on 01/26/2026 7:41:31 AM PST by DFG

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
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1 posted on 01/26/2026 7:41:31 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

He’s exactly right.


2 posted on 01/26/2026 7:42:11 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: DFG

It’s a color revolution the left is perpetrating on the American people.


3 posted on 01/26/2026 7:45:02 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: DFG

It is a classic Color Revolution and needs to be fought as such.


4 posted on 01/26/2026 7:45:46 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DFG

The Democratic Party is not just a political party. It is the political arm of an authoritarian structure that also has a paramilitary component and a propaganda component. The Republican Party does not have that. The Dems have had a paramilitary wing since the post-Civil War era. It was the KKK then through the 1950s. Then it was the liberal paramilitary groups like Occupy Wall Street, BLM and now Antifa. They all coordinate to achieve power and policy goals. Minnesota is a classic example of the playbook. Use violence to get the Republicans to back off from enforcing the law.


5 posted on 01/26/2026 7:46:30 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DFG

Since 1934, Minnesota has been the epicenter of the communist (Trotskyite) movement in America. The Long March through Minnesota’s institutions is complete…


6 posted on 01/26/2026 7:46:36 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: metmom

I agree.


7 posted on 01/26/2026 7:47:07 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: metmom

Agreed. No doubt, law enforcement has a team discovering the structure to tear it down.


8 posted on 01/26/2026 7:48:51 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: DFG

Organized protest by professional agitators... They don’t have actual jobs, but they are well funded by Democrat supporting donors... So they have access to lots and lots of money. In the end... It’s always about the money.


9 posted on 01/26/2026 7:48:59 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: DFG

Capture a couple of the ‘demonstrators’.
Encourage them to talk.


10 posted on 01/26/2026 7:49:25 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: MtnClimber

Yep. They’re fighting to win. We’re going to have to do the same which means more people are going to die.


11 posted on 01/26/2026 7:50:44 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: subterfuge
It’s a color revolution...

No, it is not. It is a communist take-over. The racial aspects are tools.

12 posted on 01/26/2026 7:51:40 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MtnClimber
It is a classic Color Revolution...

No it is not. It is a communist takeover with racial issues pushing the "useful idiots".

13 posted on 01/26/2026 7:52:45 AM PST by GingisK
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To: DFG

It all changes if the insurrection act is invoked. Its time to go after the financiers and organizers.


14 posted on 01/26/2026 7:53:08 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: DFG

Lead by their loser National Guard Sergeant Minor, Tiny Timmy Walzburger, the dipstick entertainer wannabe who was “HISTORICALLY” the governor of Minniesomalia BOTH TIMES IT WAS BURNED DOWN AND DESTROYED. (His wife loves the smell of Minniesomalia burning in the morning). The azzho has done a wonderful job dealing with the St. Georgie fires and riots and now the Somalian Aunt Teefah Azzkizzer Riots. Good job Timmy!


15 posted on 01/26/2026 7:54:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: DFG

In the 70s New York City construction workers beat the crap out of the Leftists protestors. We need that to happen again.


16 posted on 01/26/2026 7:55:18 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Tench_Coxe

...and the enablers.


17 posted on 01/26/2026 7:55:33 AM PST by GingisK
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To: DFG

Trump excels at pattern recognition and counter moves.


18 posted on 01/26/2026 7:57:49 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: kaktuskid
In the 70s New York City construction workers beat the crap out of the Leftists protestors...

In the 2020s the construction workers are now leftists, largely due to the preceding infiltration of the schools.

19 posted on 01/26/2026 7:57:54 AM PST by GingisK
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To: DFG

Right on target, and it should be raising alarms all over. Joe Citizen needs to know what to look for and report (and counter-surveille).


20 posted on 01/26/2026 7:58:35 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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