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.
@Mikel_Jollett What is exactly is the lie oh powerful and all knowing author?
Aren’t you simply doing the same that you’re accusing them of?
Blanket statement, all things are lies coming from administration. Meant to be consumed and clearly absorbed by the echo chamber below?
@sugarcanesweet9@KimKatieUSA The tactics are a result of the environment created by gov and mayor. Look at other states. Immigration law is just that, a law. You’d be shocked how difficult it is to become a resident elsewhere. The shooting was bad. 2 things can be true. You need to escape your extremist POV
@GovTimWalz Or you could’ve assisted like the other states, focused them on criminal deportations, and claimed rhetoric. We know why you didn’t do that (ahem fraud investigations)
A lot of people to blame for this recent death and you’re one of them.
@MikeDrucker What??? What about the independents, libertarians, and old guard dems that all went right?
You all really don’t understand how diverse the base was that voted against Kamala. You just say maga this and maga that. It’s cute
@JackBMontgomery@pollstersparade@atrupar What is your response to this pollster?
There is a big difference when the state support the enforcement of immigration laws of this country versus radicalizing its base. Sadly another person is dead that shouldn’t be.
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@the_jefferymead Two things can be true here.
1) this is a terrible shooting. I carry, fully support 2A, and having a gun is not an excuse to get shot. Any conservative should agree with this.
2) These people shouldn’t be here and this is a big fault of the DNC
@TrumpsHurricane Sick of these announce it to the world people. Get out. I don’t agree with everything in this country but travel the world and you’ll understand the U.S. is pretty darn good place.
@OneBadDude_ Ha. Good for him. 2A is for all of us.
Now good luck getting shot bc the media convinced you that you’re in some good versus evil battle when the country is trying to enforce immigration laws.