11/19/2022
I’m never one to promote long prison time. I would absolutely make an exception for Steve Bannon. He’s an awful person.
“The group’s international links reportedly extended beyond the foreign training camps. Italian media reports, citing police, said that the group had direct contacts with a number of Ukrainian ultranationalist groups including Azov and Right Sector, and that one of the suspects police had not been able to locate was a Ukrainian citizen who was believed to be in his homeland, fighting the Russian invasion with one of these armed groups.
Moreover, one of the arrested men, 25-year-old Giampiero Testa, also claimed to have met with American alt-right ideologue Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, during a visit to Trisulti, the sprawling 13th-century Italian monastery where Bannon was attempting to set up a right-wing think tank.
In 2018, Bannon announced his plans to set up the think tank, “The Academy of the Judeo-Christian West,” to train a new generation of European nationalists in his right-wing populist ideology, through the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a conservative Catholic institution founded by his British associate, Benjamin Harnwell. The DHI was evicted from the monastery, a listed national monument, last year following a protracted legal battle, with Harnwell facing an ongoing criminal prosecution for fraud in relation to the project. He denies any wrongdoing.”
The Order of Hagal reportedly had significant international contacts, with overseas training, links to Ukraine militants, and even claimed to have met with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
