Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth apparently condones instances of far-right extremism in the US military, a report by The Guardian says.
The British left-wing paper revealed in a Monday report that an active-duty serviceman in the US Army is openly following the Base, a proscribed terrorist group on social media.
According to a George Washington University (GWU) investigation, the Base is a white supremacist neo-Nazi accelerationist terrorist group founded in 2018. The GWU cites the group as part of the broader neo-fascist skullmask movement.
The organization was once the target of an FBI investigation. It has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war.
Experts interviewed by The Guardian believe examples like the young private who serves in the US Army’s 1st Infantry Division show how under Hegseth, the Pentagon brushes off far-right extremism.
They say the directives issued under the previous Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, had explicitly discouraged this kind of social media activity.
