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My gut instinct is telling me these are the kinds of people from the era of Soldier of Fortune and shooting at UN peacekeepers for a paycheck. "Rugged individualist" ranchers who've been willing to beat "the coloreds" back with automatic rifle fire for years.
But that is likely a take based on my ignorance of the area.
One thing's almost for certain, MAGA isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They will expect payment for services rendered. I'd keep an eye on the professional background of these people to get an idea of what form that payment will take.
You sure you don't know why trump wants to take in the remnants of the apartheid regime's constituents?
South Africa used to be what american southerners dream of when they fly the confederate flag.
Sure, they want more racists, especially armed racists, to close ranks with for when the coup goes from administrative to paramilitary. That's why I have the feeling that these people coming in are a special breed of violent ideation.
But will their shared hatred of nonwhites and progressive globalism be enough to form bonds with Americans? They're still foreigners moving to a foreign land at the end of the day.
I could imagine they would be bonding, yeah. The Afrikaners are probably also able to speak english, and then you have a bunch of white people wanting to live in a racist system with them as the ruling class.
Remember that being white didn't include many races we consider white today, the most absurd example being the Irish who are on average even more white than the anglogermanic "original" ones.
When push comes to shove they are still white people and ideologically very similar and will band together against the liberal scourge
Here's a song from the '80s about that sort of Afrikaner