Research on the Russian Vulkangruppe attacks on Berlin brings up significant reasons to question hollow-sounding insistence of “left-wing” terror.

One politician in particular stands out. Alexander Dobrindt’s receipts are damning. His political trajectory from CSU General Secretary to Federal Interior Minister comes with a documented 15-year pattern of driving attention towards left-wing threats while erasing or ignoring right-wing ones.

Relevant also is his track record on infrastructure risk management. The same man who promised 50 Mbit/s for all by 2018 while disbursing under 2% of allocated funds, who pushed copper over fiber while Germany sank to the bottom of European rankings, is now doing it again with threats to infrastructure.

Yes. You read that right. Dobrindt looked at copper and fiber options and chose… copper. Whoops. Wrong. For his failures he became known in Germany as the Münchhausen of Broadband.

Apparently, he was the man in charge who pushed Germany to the bottom of European fiber deployment. Same guy now says he looked at left-wing and right-wing threat data and saw only… left. Whoops. Wrong again.

Will Germany be the last to realize who’s actually bombing their infrastructure?

Here’s a true Münchhausen moment from June 2025, when Dobrindt spoke at a press conference about the Verfassungsschutz report:

Indeed, the chart he holds up shows “gewaltorientiert” blue bars of 2023-2024 are completely flat.

As many people pointed out at the time, the report said the opposite of what Dobrindt was claiming. The personnel potential of left-wing groups in one year went from 37K to 38K. The number of violence-oriented scene members remained unchanged at approximately 11,200.

Volksverpetzer perhaps reported it best, with an appropriate Berlin “Schnauze” tone highlighting the obvious error:

Violence-oriented left-wing extremists “rise significantly” according to Interior Minister Dobrindt from 11,200 to 11,200 (not a typo).

Volksverpetzer also pointed out how Dobrindt’s analysis errors continued and became even worse. The scale of a y-axis for right-wing extremist personnel potential was 0 to 60,000. However, for the presentation of left-wing extremist potential, it was shifted to 40,000. In other words, the increase of left-wing extremists by under three percent was presented by Dobrindt as the same visual amount as the nearly 25 percent increase to 50,250 persons for right-wing extremists.

Three is not the same as twenty-five. Shocking, I know, but also evidence of the kind of incompetence with threat data related to the investigation of the Russian Vulkangruppe attacks.

In the 2023 Verfassungsschutzbericht, Nancy Faeser had clearly reported that right-wing extremism is “the greatest extremist threat to our democracy.” Despite a twenty-five percent rise the next year, this central statement is completely removed in 2024 under Dobrindt. No justification for this deletion was provided.

Look closely at what Dobrindt was sitting on in 2025, inexplicably trying to shift focus to only left-wing groups.

• Right-extremists: 50,250 (UP 25%)
• Left-extremists: 38,000 (UP 2.7%)
• Right-wing violent crimes: UP 47%
• Left-wing violent crimes: DOWN 26.8%

This guy claimed that violence-oriented left-extremists “rise significantly” when the number was literally unchanged and crimes went down nearly 30%. Meanwhile, actual right-wing threat data was manipulated and hidden by him with misleading graphics and deletion of standard threat assessments.

Dobrindt’s willingness to fabricate threats and hide the real ones must serve his electoral interests. Otherwise, what’s the explanation for this threat data nonsense?

I suppose CSU politicians believe they can out right-wing the AfD (Nazi) for votes. The AfD rose five percent since Bavaria’s 2023 state election to 20 percent in current polls. The foundational CSU doctrine (Franz Josef Strauß) has been that “no legitimate party should exist to the right of the CSU.” That opens the door to fabricating left-wing threats and erasing right-wing ones to keep the most radical voters from defecting to AfD (Nazi).

Which brings us to 2026 headlines. His ZDF interview explicitly ruled out Russian involvement in the Berlin blackout before the investigation concluded. He pre-emptively declared “no indications” of Russia while he simultaneously announced he would be expanding surveillance of only the “linksextreme Szene”.

He’s still trying to push a false narrative that the Russian Vulkangruppe is left-wing.

The man who looked at copper and fiber and chose copper. Who looked at 11,200 and 11,200 and saw “significant rise.” Who looked at Russian naming conventions, Cyrillic transliteration errors, and GRU infrastructure attack toolkits and saw… German anarchists.

Fifteen years of attacks on German infrastructure. Zero arrests. A naming convention that fails every test of German left-wing practice. A GRU contractor called “Vulkan” cleared for classified work the same year “Vulkangruppe” appeared. And Germany’s Interior Minister declares “no indications” of Russian involvement before the investigation concludes.

A government that acknowledges GRU attacks on its infrastructure must respond. A government that blames domestic extremists can defer, study, and score political points against the left. Dobrindt isn’t stupid. He’s… well, I guess we’ll find out.

The question isn’t whether Dobrindt believes the left-wing frame. The question is whether Germany can afford an Interior Minister whose entire career has been built on looking for threats that aren’t there and trying to get others to miss the ones that are.

The word “terrorist” in American political discourse is under transformation from legal category to tribal marker. It now means “enemy” and nothing more.

This isn’t hyperbole. It’s the operational reality of how the designation framework functions under the current administration—and why it functions that way.

The Residue of a “Both Sides” Civil War

The United States has no domestic terrorism statute. No mechanism exists to formally designate purely American organizations as terrorist groups. This isn’t a gap waiting to be filled. It’s a firewall to protect losers of Civil War.

Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations unlock specific powers: material support prosecutions, financial sanctions, military authorities. The FTO list made headlines when Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. His man-with-too-many-hats Rubio designated Mexican cartels and Tren de Aragua as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

The stated purpose is banking access and law enforcement tools. It’s a lie. Those already existed through money laundering and RICO frameworks.

What FTO designation adds is military authorization language. It is for war. The Trump administration called its relentless bombing of Venezuelan day laborers, killing over 100 in small boats at sea, justified as “War Department” efforts to stop WMD (drugs) being dropped (sold in a market) by terrorists (fishermen).

John Walsh, director for drug policy and the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), said drug cartels lack the organisation, armaments and political motives to be considered “combatants”. […] “The WMD designation is meant to underscore the administration’s narrative that these are fearsome armies and invading forces that have weapons of mass destruction at their disposal. But again, I think that doesn’t have any basis,” Walsh said. He raised concerns that the designation could be used to “unlock authorities” for the administration to conduct strikes inside the US.

Rubio’s careful phrasing about “imminent threat” and crossing “into our borders” isn’t law enforcement vocabulary. It’s specific authorization-for-force vocabulary to wage wars foreign and domestic on non-combatants without declaring wars, to strategically avoid laws. The designation of TdA, attributed to Maduro’s Venezuela, built the legal fiction for the disproportionately massive military January 2026 invasion that captured one man. No police force in the world, not even America, flies hundreds of planes and strikes critical infrastructure to knock out power to 3 million people, just to serve an arrest warrant on one guy for drugs. “Counterterrorism” and a “war” was spread as propaganda, to upsell from drug enforcement or even regime change. And after kidnapping, the same propaganda machine rapidly deflated its own rhetoric by fraudulently retroactively claiming “police action”, trying to scrub all its pre-invasion war rhetoric.

Meanwhile, the domestic gap stands as a monument to white supremacists, especially those running drugs like the Sacramento cells. The KKK has never been designated. Atomwaffen Division, despite cells across multiple countries, wasn’t designated even when RIM was—because Atomwaffen is in the U.S.; domestic designation would shift statutory interpretations of “foreignness.” The administration designated a little-known Russian organization with no U.S. activity, declared victory against white supremacist terrorism, and left ALL the directly comparable American hate networks untouched.

White Privilege Protection

The KKK isn’t undesignated because of a legal gap. The legal gap exists because the KKK’s ideological descendants hold power.

As I’ve pointed out before, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third was the third generation holding out for Confederate leaders of the Civil War who wanted to destroy the Constitution to preserve slavery.

And Jefferson Beauregard was appointed by Trump, with his overt KKK name and ties front and center to his appointment, as head of the DoJ; the precise institution created by President Grant to destroy the KKK. It would be like the Germans appointing a guy named Hitler Goebbels the Third to read their radio news today. America prevented that absurd turnabout from being possible in a foreign country, while making it the goal at home.

Pete Hegseth was flagged by the military as a threat to the country, so after leaving he covered himself with even more crusader iconography and pushed for war criminal pardons. Those were then deemed by Trump his qualifications to take over the military.

Trump in Charlottesville, “stand back and stand by,” dinner with Nick Fuentes. Stephen Miller. The Proud Boys—pardoned. The Oath Keepers—pardoned. Patriot Front marches openly. The through-line from Klan to current administration isn’t subtle.

It’s the explanation.

Fuentes recently boasted 40% of the White House already are Nazis.

If domestic designation existed, the machinery would eventually point at them. So they keep the domestic gap intact to protect the base, inflate foreign designations for cartels and gangs and whatever serves the news cycle, and ironically use “terrorist” rhetorically against their domestic opponents without legal mechanism.

It’s like how Ronald Reagan as governor of California called himself a gun rights advocate while demanding Blacks have their guns taken away. That man was not subtle about his racism, and he was elected President because of it.

The rhetoric does the work without the legal exposure. Throw chaotic shifting “terrorist” insults at protesters because they differ in political views, treat them as terrorists and murder them at shock troop checkpoints—but never formally designate, because formal designation establishes law and order through records, standards, potential judicial review.

Double Standard Visibility

	Iran Protesters	American Protesters
Deaths	100+ confirmed, 70 bodies to one hospital in single night	30+ dead in custody (2025), citizens shot at checkpoints
Trump response	“If they start killing people”—after killing already documented	Protesters “brainwashed,” resistance to federal forces criminalized
Designation	Iran’s label: “enemy of God”	DHS label: enemy of State “terrorists”
Consequence	Justifies military intervention	Justifies blackout, no investigation

Iranian deaths are being used to justify a military action long desired. American deaths are being ignored as inconvenient—information to suppress because acknowledging them would expose the administration puts over half of America Last based on race.

Trump’s “if they start killing people” rhetoric after Iran has been killing hundreds of people performs the same function as the loose FTO designations. It creates a false starting point from which all subsequent action appears reactive. Future military action is being staged now as a false “response” rather than aggression.

Historical Through-Line

Ruby Ridge (1992): Federal agents kill white separatist’s wife and son. Two deaths. Congressional hearings. Settlements. Cited for three decades as proof of federal tyranny. The militia movement builds its entire persecution narrative around it. It’s been the canonical NRA story for why everyone needs to open-carry assault rifles with banana clips and prepare weekly for violent response to federal agents.

January 6 (2021): Coordinated political violence to overturn election. Cops beaten. Capitol breached. Textbook domestic terrorism by any behavioral definition. Pardoned. Families compensated. Participants in unprovoked violence against federal agents called “patriots” and “political prisoners.”

2025-26 Reversal: American civilians shot to death at checkpoints. Killed in custody. One ICE agent texted after shooting a Chicago woman: “I fired 5 shots and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” No hearings. No settlements. No investigation. No Ruby Ridge invocations.

The math: 2 dead produced decades of outrage and congressional action, a template for resisting federal agents or worse. Now 30+ dead in Trump custody produces silence. 4+ shot by Trump’s agents produces “put that in your book.”

Ruby Ridge was held up to warn government will kill citizens. That was supposed to be the thing that justified decades of anti-federal organizing and militancy. Now the Ruby Ridge types are the federal government, and they are doing the killing, and the lesson… evaporates. The outrage was never about freedom for citizens. It was about government killing specific citizens.

Friend/Enemy

Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist, defined politics as the distinction between friend and enemy. The terrorist designation framework now operates on exactly this principle.

January 6 was terrorism defined: coordinated, politically motivated, violent, aimed at influencing government. But they’re being reclassified as our terrorists, so they’re treated as patriots.

Protesters opposing extrajudicial execution by federal shock troops are their people, so… they’re treated as terrorists without any designation—because that designation would mean a legal process, and legal process might produce accountability in a regime that operates instead like dictatorship.

Foreign protesters get “God-given rights to freedom.” Domestic protesters get shot by God-given bullets at random checkpoints.

Same acts. Opposite designations. Based entirely on tribal membership.

The American treatment of the word “terrorist” is now pure friend/enemy marker to curate white power. The legal architecture exists to formalize that marking against foreign targets, for purposes of asset seizure, while protecting domestic allies from ever facing the same machinery for asset capture and hoarding. The asymmetry is the design.

The BBC report that over 100 protestors in Iran have been killed including security personnel, with 70 bodies brought to one hospital in Rasht in a single night, staff at three hospitals “overwhelmed with the injured and dead,” direct shots through the eyes and hearts, with over 2,500 arrested.

This has been very public, documented, verified, despite Iran’s attempts at a communication crackdown like… the recent White House censorship of a 60 minutes investigation.

Trump has responded to news still coming out of Iran (unlike 60 minutes, which he censored) by threatening to attack Iran “very hard” if they “start killing people”.

If…?

He knows.

His use of “if” isn’t a bald statement of ignorance, it’s his spin style. He wants to warm his military up to Iran First, and to socialize an Iranian lives matter operation, despite everyone seeing that American lives don’t and come last now.

	Iran	United States
Protesters killed by	Security forces: 100+ confirmed dead, 70 bodies to one hospital in single night	Security forces: 30+ dead in custody (2025), seven dead in December alone, citizens being shot in vehicles and on the streets
Trump’s response	“If they start killing people” when they already have	Falsely accuses protestors of being “brainwashed” and frames all resistance to federal shock troops as criminal.
Threat level	Threatens military strikes	Expands crackdown enforcement, doubles security force, shortens training to 6 weeks, ignores courts
Government transparency	Condemns Iran’s internet blackout	Forces illegal oversight ban a day after execution of citizen, defying courts; pressures networks to suppress critical coverage
Rule of law	Demands Iran respect protesters’ rights	Demands protestors abandon rights, ignores security force crimes and defies court orders; judges rule administration “lied” about threats
First Amendment	Condemns suppression of dissent	Continues suppression of dissent. Targets political opposition for security force intimidation. Federal judge: Trump has “no respect for First Amendment rights”
Official designation of protesters	Attorney General: “enemy of God”	VP: “brainwashed”; DHS: “terrorists”

The “if” of Trump was a calculated lie. It means the American Pineapple Face is performing regime change theater, with zero humanitarian concern behind the curtain.

Iranian deaths are spun as useful data points, to justify a military action he (e.g. Israel) already wants.

American deaths are inconvenient and being spun the other direction as worthless, since any value would expose the deaths and destruction of rights that Trump “grab-em” actually produces.

The American detention death toll of Trump is staggering. The first year of his second administration has been even deadlier than 2020, when the unchecked COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the high death toll in his facilities.

Calling ICE detention plans a death camp operation would not be an exaggeration. Washington Post reporters have suggested the infamously racist camps created by California in WWII (for white businessman to appropriate American Japanese homes and businesses) are on the table as one of Trump’s redistribution of wealth plans.

To be clear, the “if” of Trump functions as pre-authorization for him to start killing. By pretending killing hasn’t started, Trump positions future military action to start killing as being responsive rather than aggressive. That’s his foundational lie, avoiding all accountability.

Meanwhile the actual killing his administration does gets fraudulently reframed as self-defense against “terrorists.” That’s the expanded lie, avoiding all accountability.

Foreign protesters are framed with “God-given rights to freedom.” Meanwhile the domestic protesters have no rights, preemptively redefined as criminals for even daring to think they are free. Foreign governments killing protesters is an outrage justifying military intervention. American government killing Americans is blackout stuff, nothing to see, no investigations.

Same playbook, opposite spin, based entirely on which lie serves the American Pineapple Face agenda and avoids accountability for killing.

Killed by Trump’s shock troops:

• Renee Nicole Good, 37, Minneapolis – January 7, 2026. US citizen, poet, mother. Shot at a traffic checkpoint. Governor declared “Renee Good Day.”
• Keith Porter Jr., 43, Los Angeles – December 31, 2025. US citizen, father of two. Shot by off-duty ICE agent during New Year’s Eve celebration.
• Silverio Villegas González, 38, Chicago – September 2025. Father, cook. Shot at a traffic checkpoint.

Despite the blackout attempts by Trump we know of sixteen shooting incidents, four dead, seven wounded.

One of Trump’s agents bragged in texts after shooting a Chicago woman:

I fired 5 shots and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.

If she’d been storming the Capitol to install Trump, she’d be pardoned by now and her family paid millions. If she’d been storming Tehran, she’d be a glorified “freedom fighter.” She was in the wrong city, opposing the wrong injustice, so the agent keeps his “book” open for the next American to fill with Pineapple Face holes.