I gave up on the whole “what if the boot was on the other foot” whine a long time ago, and so should you, frankly. It’s a waste of air. There are moral asymmetries in politics today that no amount of gurgling and mewling will do anything to change. How leftists gleefully do everything in their power to lock up, destroy, even kill their opponents, then scream blue murder as soon as they get one-hundredth of their hate thrown back at them when they’re no longer in power—that’s one example that springs to mind. You’re literally killing democracy! Which is to say, doing exactly what we do, just less ruthlessly and effectively. But, anyway, indulge me for a moment here. What if the boot really was on the other foot?
What if—oh, I don’t know—a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama was uncovered? What if it involved a neo-Nazi teenager in the US who had been conspiring with a foreign actor from a country the US was bankrolling in a massive war? And what if the plot existed because the President had now decided it would be better for the war, finally, to come to an end?
Do you think that would be a big story?
I think it would. It sounds like the plot of a Tom Clancy novel come to life. And imagine wanting to harm Barack Obama!
Well, guess what? I didn’t just pull that scenario out of my backside—or Tom Clancy’s. There really is a transatlantic neo-Nazi plot to kill the President and it involves a close ally the US has bankrolled to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in a war that’s taking place right now, as I type out this article. The only difference is, the President is Donald Trump not Barack Obama, so nobody’s saying a damn thing about it. Oh yeah, and it’s not that close ally the US has bankrolled to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars either—it’s Ukraine.
The teenager in this shocking real case is one Nikita Casap. Seventeen-year-old Nikita was arrested in early March during a traffic stop in Kansas. He was driving a stolen vehicle, had a gun and ammunition, and a large quantity of money in his possession. A week or so earlier, police had arrived at the Casap family residence in Waukesha, Wisconsin to make a welfare check after his mother and stepfather hadn’t been seen in two weeks. When there was no answer, officers entered the property and discovered their dead bodies. It was also discovered that a large quantity of personal items had been stolen.
Nikita was arrested for his mother and stepfather’s murders and for stealing and selling their stuff. When the FBI accessed his electronic devices, they discovered what the money was for. Little Nicky had been planning on buying heavy weaponry—a drone and explosives—to assassinate Donald Trump and topple the government. Standard teenager things.
It’s an incredible story. You can read the FBI’s documents on the case online. They contain screenshots from Telegram conversations Nikita had with a number of different individuals in Ukraine. In multiple conversations, Casap talks about killing Donald Trump using weapons obtained from his Ukrainian contacts and paid for with cryptocurrency; going into hiding in Ukraine after the assassination; and how the whole thing will—conveniently—be blamed on the Russians. He talks about buying a drone with a special “dropper,” presumably to drop a bomb on the President, and asks whether he’ll be able to live a normal life in Ukraine, even “when it’s found out I did it [killed Trump].”
There are also screenshots from a “manifesto”—written by whom, it’s not clear—which outlines an “accelerationalist” project to bring about the final victory of the white race over its eternal desert-wandering, curly-locked arch-enemies.
“It is clear that jews control all of the White countries, and it is clear that they promote White genocide and degeneracy. This [sic] for the white [sic] race to survive, it is necessary to accelerate the collapse of the countries. Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses.”
President Trump’s murder—and maybe the murder of his Vice President too—“is guaranteed to bring some chaos,” the manifesto continues. It will also “further bring into the public the idea that assassinations and accelerating the collapse are possible things to do.”
All to the good, then.
There are references to various neo-Nazi groups in the material, from the Order of Nine Angles to Atomwaffen, both of which sound like factions from a shoddy mid-90s RTS game, except they’re not. They’re real groups.
Reading all of this dreck, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for young Nikita. He’s just a teenager, and he comes off as very naive, especially when he’s asking if he can live a “normal life” in Ukraine when he’s just killed the President of the world’s most powerful country with a bomb dropped from a drone. But nothing changes the fact he killed his mother and step-father in cold blood, took their stuff and sold it so he could kill the President, with the broader goal of killing even more people. We’re all impressionable as teenagers but—bloody hell. This is a long way from Reefer Madness.
Like I say, all of this stuff is online, in the FBI documents, but nobody in the mainstream media is saying or doing a thing about it. At best, Casap will be dismissed as a lone-wolf loser, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. At worst, he’ll simply be ignored and forgotten.
There’s a huge story here and it doesn’t just involve Nikita Casap. It involves two other people who recently tried to assassinate Donald Trump: Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Butler gunman who came within millimeters of succeeding, and Ryan Routh, who lay in wait for the President while he was playing golf, a few weeks later.
Ryan Routh’s connections to Ukraine are well known. He travelled there to recruit soldiers to fight the Russians, and had a grand plan to import Afghan refugees via Iran to that aim. Routh also had apparent connections to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. He appeared in a social-media video to drum up support for the Azov Battalion’s Mariupol garrison; although Azov have, unsurprisingly, denied any association with him. Routh blamed Donald Trump for the war in Ukraine and believed that if he became president the war would be lost. So Trump had to die.
Thomas Matthew Crooks also had foreign connections, including encrypted messaging accounts on platforms based in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany. We still don’t have a clue who he was talking to, but he was precisely the same kind of weird-ass teenage boy as Nikita Casap. Were they talking to the same people, in the same groups? It’s not beyond the realms of possibility.
You can choose to dismiss these people as whackos and assume they’re totally unconnected, lone wolves; or you can choose to see the similarities and pursue them.
The mainstream media is choosing not to see the similarities or pursue them. I think we know why.
So instead, it’s being left to internet users like the sleuths behind the Substack page “Events in Ukraine” to try to draw some lines among all the dots. He does an admirable job; although the range of potential actors, ideologies and interests involved is rather daunting to someone who isn’t as up on his Eastern European neo-Nazi groups as he really should be.
What is clear, I think, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that there’s a real threat to the President’s life from factions within Ukraine that do not want peace with Russia. That threat will continue and may even grow if peace is concluded. It’s said that one reason Zelensky himself doesn’t want peace, especially if he’s forced to concede territory to the Russians, is because he knows he’ll be a lifelong target for ultranationalists, regardless of which capital he chooses for his exile. They’ll get him whether he’s in London, Paris or Ougadougou.
This is a totally distinct threat from the threat posed to the President and members of the administration by the American left, which is now taking its cues from Luigi Mangione and his murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This is an international threat, for the purposes of influencing international politics, even if American citizens are used to carry it out.
If these people succeed, God forbid, that will be a story the media can’t turn a blind eye to.