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We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Customs and Border Patrol agent whose bones were found in front of the Homes 2 Suites Hotel, who, during the eruption of Minneapolis, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that cannot be taken from a man.
Those were not the famous words of Oswald Spengler at the close of his short book, Man and Technics, published in 1931.
Spengler was talking, of course, about the Roman soldier who refused to abandon his watch at Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted, simply because no-one gave the order to.
Instead, he was engulfed by the pyroclastic flow, his body carbonised and turned to stone under immense heat and pressure; buried beneath ash and dirt; preserved until its discovery nearly 2,000 years later.
A thing of wonder.
For Spengler, the soldier’s display of “race”—of breeding coupled with training, discipline and will—was an example for the ages, and for our age, as Western civilization teetered on the brink.
In such a time, in the face of such odds, Spengler wrote, “Optimism is cowardice.” We must stand and do our duty, even if the best we can hope for is annihilation.
Thankfully, that brave federal agent who defended the Homes 2 Suites Hotel in Minneapolis lived to fight another day.
Battered and bloodied, yes, but unbowed; alive. He held firm in the jaws of a leftist mob bent on destruction—they had been told the hotel was full of federal agents—and he provided a powerful example, one that might even have brought the traces of a smile to the notoriously dour visage of Spengler himself.
I don’t mean to be grandiloquent for the sake of it. Symbols matter. They really do.
Here we see symbolised what? Defiance, for one thing; order and chaos–another; but also, most importantly, the greater drama playing out across America today, as Donald Trump attempts, against the heaviest of odds, to remove millions of illegal aliens from the country.
The stakes of the battle for America have never been clearer than in the fight taking place right now in Minneapolis. The forces of law and order, of national sovereignty and love of one’s own people—the natural patriotic drives that motivate tens of millions of Americans still—face a dedicated and determined threat from the radical left.
Video footage from brave independent journalists and intercepted messages from encrypted chats have revealed a sophisticated, coordinated operation targeting the 3,000 federal agents in the Twin Cities area. A complex division of labor exists among the protesters, a clear hierarchy of roles and responsibilities: some keep watch, others signal using whistles, some take license plates and others run them through databases to see if the cars are suspected of being registered to ICE. There are drivers, medics, blockers—who just get in the way—and footsoldiers who intimidate officers and lob and smash stuff, like at the Homes 2 Suites Hotel on Sunday night.
The encrypted messages also make it clear that the protesters are receiving support from local government, including possibly senior members of the Walz administration. A Signal user identified as “Flan” may very well be Lt Gov. Penny Flanagan.
In a special report for INFOWARS, I asked whether the protesters might not have access to the city’s automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system. This AI-controlled network allows real-time monitoring of all traffic in the city, including the number of people in individual vehicles. The images are clear enough to identify the race of the occupants. This would explain, among other things, how rapidly the protesters have been able to identify and swarm federal agents. That’s what both Renee Good and Alex Pretti were doing when they were killed.
Local police, too, are siding with the mob. The city’s police chief said publicly that it doesn’t matter if federal agents were justified in shooting Alex Pretti: only the hurt feelings of the protesters should count. Police units sent to the Homes 2 Suites Hotel were called off and returned to base, leaving embattled federal agents to defend themselves. It’s on video.
The protesters also appear to be in receipt of massive funding, including from overseas. Here’s what Fox News had to say on that score: “Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests. Many of them are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai. Some are also offshoots of the People’s Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an ‘incubator’ for socialist and communist groups.”
This is nothing short of an insurgency.
That’s what people familiar with insurgencies, like former Green Beret warrant officer Eric Schwalm, are saying. Here’s some of what he said on X yesterday, in a detailed post about the protests.
“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.”
Schwalm is in no doubt: insurgencies, buoyed by success, spread. This insurgency will be no different. If the protesters get what they want—if their tactics work—they’ll use them in every city in America to paralyse Trump’s flagship immigration agenda, and more besides. The chaos will beget further chaos.
So much depends on what Trump decides to do in response—push on or back off?
The position is far from lost. Not yet.
