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“We’re not sure. We don’t have any evidence.”

He and a posse of like-minded patriots aren’t taking any chances. They’re posting pictures of military vehicles on a Facebook page, documenting each suspicious sighting in the U.S. South.

He fears one of two possible outcomes. One’s a communist takeover. The other, a foreign invasion facilitated by an America-hating president who has no intention of relinquishing power when his term ends in 20 months: “We do believe he is the enemy of the United States,” he says, adding other epithets about the commander-in-chief.

He sees good news, too: there are more than 250 million guns in America and the country’s ready for any invaders — especially if it’s the blue-helmeted troops of the UN.

That the world has now heard of this pernicious plot is thanks, largely, to one man. The rookie governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, put Jade Helm 15 fears on the mainstream map.

The governor asked the Texas State Guard to keep an eye on the federal exercise. With that, the issue promptly catapulted from the fringes of Facebook into the mass media and, inevitably, into the mocking monologues of TV comedians like Jon Stewart.

The governor later explained that he just wanted to ensure civil liberties were protected. But that didn’t spare him from ridicule — and worse.

One former state lawmaker castigated the governor in a letter. He accused him of “pandering to idiots.”

“I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my governor doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to those who do,” said the letter from Todd Smith, a 16-year Republican lawmaker who lost a 2012 primary.