There’s been a string of these attacks for a decade now. One of the various neonazi/Patriot movements (Idaho flavor iirc) espouses infrastructure attacks and di

There’s been a string of these attacks for a decade now. One of the various neonazi/Patriot movements (Idaho flavor iirc) espouses infrastructure attacks and disruption as being the kickoff for their RaHoWa, and they keep trying to pop off every couple years. There hasn’t been a ton of coverage about it because of a desire to avoid copycats and avoid publicizing or popularizing the ideology in general. But like, occupying that nature preserve didn’t come out of nowhere, just there’s not a lot of benefit for centrists/sympathizers in pushing this particular culture war, with how many Americans are touchy about guns etc. https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look-210616746.html?guccounter=1 https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look... https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo-nazi-power-substation-plots/?ipid=promo-link-block1 https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo... (afaik the Facebook lady idea has been essentially discarded, she seems to be a moron but not involved. And then there’s this other guy with ties to a patriot group who supposedly started and then aborted plans for a similar attack… or perhaps not aborted after all?) (also, the patriot/militia movement is heavily involved with RNC and Russian funding in general… Maria Butina was attached to the NRA after all etc. The leader of one of these groups (literally “The Base”) has a Russian wife and lived in Russia etc. Generally speaking these groups are one of the tools Russia uses to inflame local tensions - whatever is most disruptive etc.) https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-of-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-owns-lan/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-...