Chris Bennett
@cwbennett.bsky.social
Reposted by Chris Bennett
What exactly is throwing a flash bang at a car supposed to achieve, other than very clearly demonstrating that these agents are untrained, undisciplined, panicked, cruel, sloppy, uncoordinated, scared, and unprofessional?
"Let's stun the guy driving a car near a crowd" great decision boys
"Let's stun the guy driving a car near a crowd" great decision boys
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
What exactly is throwing a flash bang at a car supposed to achieve, other than very clearly demonstrating that these agents are untrained, undisciplined, panicked, cruel, sloppy, uncoordinated, scared, and unprofessional?
"Let's stun the guy driving a car near a crowd" great decision boys
"Let's stun the guy driving a car near a crowd" great decision boys
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Literally doing the meme lol
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Literally doing the meme lol
Reposted by Chris Bennett
I am sure its a coincidence so many males in current administration talk like domestic abusers.
January 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I am sure its a coincidence so many males in current administration talk like domestic abusers.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
“SOF and drones can do everything” is symptomatic of the current American Dysfunctional Way of War.
it really seems like his vision here is a war conducted almost entirely by small SF units who he thinks can sufficiently secure the country
that's wildly different from kidnapping a guy. And exactly the kind of work SF are, historically, bad at
that's wildly different from kidnapping a guy. And exactly the kind of work SF are, historically, bad at
January 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“SOF and drones can do everything” is symptomatic of the current American Dysfunctional Way of War.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
This is nuts, the US currently doesn't have a government role in Venezuela.
Why do these journalists accept a claim from the administration that is easily verified as false?
Why do these journalists accept a claim from the administration that is easily verified as false?
BRENNAN: How long will the US government role in Venezuela continue?
CHRIS WRIGHT: It could be a year or two. It could be more.
CHRIS WRIGHT: It could be a year or two. It could be more.
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is nuts, the US currently doesn't have a government role in Venezuela.
Why do these journalists accept a claim from the administration that is easily verified as false?
Why do these journalists accept a claim from the administration that is easily verified as false?
Reposted by Chris Bennett
I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Reposted by Chris Bennett
10. Mike Luckovich
January 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
10. Mike Luckovich
Reposted by Chris Bennett
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
Reposted by Chris Bennett
"..invasion of🇮🇶had congressional authorization, public support...international support from over 40 countries & more than 150K UStroops...to occupy & stabilize... And even w/all that, ousting Hussein set off an insurgency & an ethnoreligious civil war, gave rise to ISIS & increased🇮🇷s regional power"
The last time the US initiated a regime change war was 2003 against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. With Maduro in Venezuela, as with Hussein in Iraq, American forces destabilized a problematic but relatively stable situation, even though the country had not attacked the US, nor harbored terrorists who did.
Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone
Venezuelan democracy, America, and the world are all going to lose
www.theunpopulist.net
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"..invasion of🇮🇶had congressional authorization, public support...international support from over 40 countries & more than 150K UStroops...to occupy & stabilize... And even w/all that, ousting Hussein set off an insurgency & an ethnoreligious civil war, gave rise to ISIS & increased🇮🇷s regional power"
In case you were wondering what Mayor Mandan meant when he said “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty” please see the pearl clutching about Mayor Frey dropping the F bomb.
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
In case you were wondering what Mayor Mandan meant when he said “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty” please see the pearl clutching about Mayor Frey dropping the F bomb.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
DOJ use of force policy.
He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
DOJ use of force policy.
He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
He broke the law and murdered a US citizen. Full stop.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
I wrote an Expert Comment for the University of Oxford on the implications of the US aggression against Venezuela for International Law and Global Security.
My argument in brief below:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
My argument in brief below:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
January 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
I wrote an Expert Comment for the University of Oxford on the implications of the US aggression against Venezuela for International Law and Global Security.
My argument in brief below:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
My argument in brief below:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
Reposted by Chris Bennett
The point about a defense budget is to spend as *little* as you possibly can while meeting your security needs.
Constantly spending more and more of your national wealth on defense is symptomatic of a state in decline.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Constantly spending more and more of your national wealth on defense is symptomatic of a state in decline.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump calls for $1.5 trillion military budget in 2027, up from $901 bln in 2026
Any such increase would require congressional authorization, which could pose a challenge.
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The point about a defense budget is to spend as *little* as you possibly can while meeting your security needs.
Constantly spending more and more of your national wealth on defense is symptomatic of a state in decline.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Constantly spending more and more of your national wealth on defense is symptomatic of a state in decline.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Must-read - I've long thought the effects of social media on the mass public are likely overrated but their effects on elites are underrated
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Must-read - I've long thought the effects of social media on the mass public are likely overrated but their effects on elites are underrated
Reposted by Chris Bennett
This is also a field test.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
This is also a field test.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with.
Nothing.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Straight to the Intro to IR syllabus
January 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Straight to the Intro to IR syllabus
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Stop going to Johnson & Thune’s press conferences to be lied to. Start asking actual questions about why Congress has fully abdicated its power. Leave when they don’t answer & keep lying. Literally turn off the cameras & walk out. The entire model of “normal journalism” c.1945-2016 doesn’t work now.
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Stop going to Johnson & Thune’s press conferences to be lied to. Start asking actual questions about why Congress has fully abdicated its power. Leave when they don’t answer & keep lying. Literally turn off the cameras & walk out. The entire model of “normal journalism” c.1945-2016 doesn’t work now.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
If he means WWII, there were no US casualties in Greenland during the war. The casualties from patrols destroying Nazi weather bases were Danish.
If he means SS Dorchester getting torpedoed near Greenland, that's part of the Battle of the Atlantic, which wasn't about protecting Greenland.
If he means SS Dorchester getting torpedoed near Greenland, that's part of the Battle of the Atlantic, which wasn't about protecting Greenland.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If he means WWII, there were no US casualties in Greenland during the war. The casualties from patrols destroying Nazi weather bases were Danish.
If he means SS Dorchester getting torpedoed near Greenland, that's part of the Battle of the Atlantic, which wasn't about protecting Greenland.
If he means SS Dorchester getting torpedoed near Greenland, that's part of the Battle of the Atlantic, which wasn't about protecting Greenland.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
Government of, by, and for the Online Right.
And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.
And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Government of, by, and for the Online Right.
And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.
And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.
Reposted by Chris Bennett
A worse Secretary of State than Mike Pompeo, you say?
Congrats again to the other 99 Senators. Truly, well done.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Congrats again to the other 99 Senators. Truly, well done.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
A worse Secretary of State than Mike Pompeo, you say?
Congrats again to the other 99 Senators. Truly, well done.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Congrats again to the other 99 Senators. Truly, well done.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...