<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div class="gmail_attr">--------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/07/08/american-neo-nazis-ukraine-war/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2023/07/08/american-neo-nazis-ukraine-war/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter</a><b style="font-size:large"><i><br></i></b></div><div><b style="font-size:large"><i><br></i></b></div><div><b style="font-size:large"><i>A short excerpt of this article is copied below...</i></b></div><div><b style="font-size:large"><i><br></i></b></div><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin-bottom:0.5rem;font-family:TIActuBetaMono,Consolas,"Andale Mono",monospace;font-size:14px"><a rel="author" href="https://theintercept.com/staff/ben-makuch/" aria-label="Posts by Ben Makuch" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration:inherit" target="_blank">Ben Makuch</a></div>July 8 2023, 6:00 a.m.<b style="font-size:large"><i><br></i></b></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-family:TIActuBeta,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:26px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(17,17,17);width:700px">The leader of the anti-Putin Russian Volunteer </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-family:TIActuBeta,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:26px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(17,17,17);width:700px">Corps is publicly connected to Robert Rundo </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-family:TIActuBeta,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:26px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(17,17,17);width:700px">and Christopher Pohlhaus.</p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex;padding-bottom:0.625rem;padding-top:17px;margin-top:1rem;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:SwiftNeue,Georgia,serif;font-size:medium"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;display:flex"><a rel="author" href="https://theintercept.com/staff/ben-makuch/" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration:inherit;overflow:hidden;border-radius:9999px" target="_blank"></a></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.5;letter-spacing:0.01em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeue,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;font-family:TIActuBeta,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.1em">IN LATE MAY,</span> an alliance of anti-Putin partisans used Ukrainian territory to launch a stunning incursion into western Russia. Spearheaded by the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c4ffe9b8-a3f5-4f33-a420-effe32754bbf" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit;outline-width:0px" target="_blank">Russian Volunteer Corps</a>, or RVC, and its leader Denis Kapustin, a <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/27/leader-of-russian-volunteer-corps-placed-on-interior-ministry-wanted-list-a80621" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit;outline-width:0px" target="_blank">wanted neo-Nazi </a>and ex-soccer hooligan, the assault exposed just how vulnerable Russia had become to attacks since its invasion of Ukraine.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;margin:0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.5;letter-spacing:0.01em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeue,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px">For years, Kapustin has maintained public links with two notorious American neo-Nazis: <a href="https://bloodyelbow.com/2023/05/26/naz-mma-denis-kapustin-belgorod/" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:inherit;text-decoration-color:inherit;outline-width:0px" target="_blank">Robert Rundo</a>, the founder of the street fighting gang Rise Above Movement, and Christopher Pohlhaus, an ex-Marine and leader of a group that terrorizes drag events in the U.S.</p></div></div>
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