22-year-old Jacob Markulije, a US Army soldier stationed at Fort Polk in Louisiana, has been arrested for threatening to walk into a synagogue with an assault rifle and kill everyone inside. The case is hard to read, but worth understanding.

Markulije was first reported to the FBI in February this year - his statements on Discord were flagged by threat-monitoring systems. Audio recordings secured by investigators contain phrases like "after deployment, if the Jews still have control over the American government, I am walking into a synagogue with an AK-47," along with a plan for ammunition.

Zachary A. Keller, the prosecutor, said such threats "represent a threat to the freedoms of religion guaranteed to each of us". The case, he added, "shows the FBI's vigilance and rapid reaction". Standard rhetoric. The reality is that Markulije, a serving US Army soldier, was openly talking about an ideology tied to "the white future" and "racial survival". That is not some peripheral phenomenon - that is a soldier in uniform with weapons.

It reopens the question American institutions keep systematically avoiding - how deeply the far right has infiltrated the army itself. Reports from the last decade show the percentage is not small. The FBI in 2010-2025 ran internal analyses that pointed to a trend, but the political ground did not allow for open discussion.

For the Balkans, this is not a distant topic. Radical ideologies do not respect geography, and the weaponry of the US Army travels to many places. When Markulije talks about "securing the future of white youth" - he is doing so through a frame tied to internationally networked groups. The Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former East Germany are sites of those exchanges, without it being news.

The question dry press releases do not answer: is this an isolated case, or just one that happened to be caught on a chat log?