This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. This episode we're speaking to journalist Ali

Winston. He's going to be speaking to us about a bizarre case where a US

military soldier is currently in court and is probably

gonna go to prison for the rest of his life because he is a no joke

neo-Nazi satanic occultist who is a member or is acting on behalf or under the influence or ideology of the occult group order of nine angles he tried to blow up his whole unit it sounds

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So you've been looking into this very serious but almost like stranger than fiction case

where a US soldier who is a neo-Nazi and a daring of order of nine angles the far right satanic esoteric

a cult order he was planning to blow up his own unit right what the fuck

this is probably one of the stranger cases I've covered in

five, six years covering the far right in the states and elsewhere, but to be

honest with you, it was pretty real and I mean, I can't, the deeper I got into it, the more, the clearer it became that the feds and the military were freaked out by this case.

To them represented kind of the ultimate insider threat.

So what happened is Ethan Phelan Melzer is a young 20-something man from from Louisville,

Kentucky high school dropout not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed,

kind of dabbled in like, you know,

Edelord style shit when he was younger,

he was allegedly, you know, from court filings,

it shows that he dealt weed.

He allegedly robbed people during drug deals

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