Andrew Gallavan
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Andrew Gallavan
@AndrewGallavan
Catholic, Bad Golfer, Precinct Delegate, Family Dude, Veteran, Notre Dame Football Fan, Hobby Sports Photographer, & Oxford Comma supporter

@realDonaldTrump, @PeteHegseth I get that there are reasons why someone with an autoimmune disorder & had a stroke can't join the US Military. However, once again, I'd be more than happy to sign any waiver if I could join the US military. I'll hit my PT requirements, even at 39






I despise Al Jazeera. But this analysis by Exeter University professor Muhanad Seloom is worth reading: • “Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.” • “But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.” • “When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.” • “When proxies launch retaliatory attacks across the region, this is not evidence of an expanding network; it is evidence of predelegated response authority, which is what a centralised command system activates when it anticipates its own destruction. Predelegation is a sign of desperation, not strength. It means the centre can no longer coordinate. The attacks will continue, but they will become increasingly uncoordinated, strategically incoherent and politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.” • “Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defences, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery. The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.” aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…


Comparing the war in Iran to a hypothetical Chinese war against Taiwan is like saying an apple is an orange because they're both fruit. Geopolitics, the Middle East, and Taiwan are infinitely more complicated situations than trite leftist talking points




Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Socialists A Sarah McLachlan Parody

Conan O'Brien on comedians going after President Trump: "I think you've now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you've exchanged it for anger… If you're a comedian, you always need to be funny."

Something strange is happening in the information war. Young Americans defending regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran that jail protesters, strip women of rights and execute people for being gay. Self-described patriots on the right suddenly echoing narratives that benefit a country like Russia — which is openly hostile to the United States. How does that happen? Not through tanks or missiles. Post by post, people get pulled into camps that don’t actually serve their own country or their own values. They become pieces on a chessboard in a GRAY WAR — a conflict fought with information instead of bullets. And most people don’t even realize they’re part of it. The battlefield isn’t overseas anymore — it’s in your feed.






