John M. Ahern

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John M. Ahern

John M. Ahern

@JohnMAhern

Husband, Father of 3, Da to 2, and dog dad. Animal, Stand Up Paddle boarding, environment & beach fanatic. Irish ☘️ Da

Philly, OCNJ, Glencolumcille Katılım Nisan 2009
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Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸
“He [Churchill] wasn’t a very popular man in Ireland back then either.” - Cillian Murphy
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Power to the People ☭🕊
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist·
Reporter: “Iran has said if you put boots on the ground it will be another Vietnam. Are you afraid of that?” Trump: “I’m not afraid of anything.” What he is afraid of is the Epstein files, which is why he is sending your children to war to murder other people’s children.
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Trill Clinton
Trill Clinton@aStatesman·
You IDIOTS elected a conman to presidency, not once but twice, and now look at you. Can’t afford gas, farms going bankrupt, masked men shooting Americans in the streets, and your kids are dying in Iran to distract from the EPSTEIN Files. While his family makes BILLIONS. DUMBASSES
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Mike Sington
Mike Sington@MikeSington·
“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.
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The Wall Street Journal
Breaking: Russia is secretly providing satellite imagery and sharing drone technology to help Iran target U.S. forces in the region on.wsj.com/478OhaN
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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom·
To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you. Dyslexia isn’t a weakness. It’s your strength.
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Reporter: If you could say something to Trump, what would it be? PA voter: You’re a worthless pile of sh*t. Reporter: How many times did you vote for him? PA voter: 3 times. That was my bad. Apparently I’m an idiot.
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Mohamad Safa
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa·
When the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it. The United States and Israel.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
JUST IN: The United States has lost eleven MQ-9 Reaper drones over Iran in seventeen days. Each one costs approximately $30 million. That is $330 million in airframes shot down by a country whose entire air defense network the Pentagon was supposed to have neutralised in the opening 72 hours. The fixed sites were hit. US and Israeli strikes degraded an estimated 60 to 80 percent of Iran’s radar installations and higher-end missile batteries. The suppression campaign worked on paper. What it did not suppress were the mobile systems. The Khordad-15 and Khordad-3 are medium-range surface-to-air platforms that use passive electro-optical and infrared sensors instead of active radar. They do not emit a signal for anti-radiation missiles to home in on. They move. They hide. They wait. And when a $30 million Reaper enters their engagement envelope on a targeting or battle damage assessment orbit, they fire. Eleven times they connected. Air and Space Forces Magazine confirmed the losses represent roughly 10 percent of the active MQ-9 fleet. CBS News and TRT World corroborated the tally. Iran claims 104 US and Israeli drones downed in total, a figure that includes smaller platforms, but the 11 Reapers are the ones that matter because they are the backbone of American persistent surveillance and precision strike architecture in the Middle East. The US accepted this attrition rate deliberately. Every Reaper lost is a manned aircraft that did not have to fly through the same threat ring. The trade-off is rational. A $30 million drone is cheaper than a pilot. But rational trade-offs still carry strategic costs that compound. Every Reaper orbiting over Iran is a Reaper not available for Hormuz escort reconnaissance. Every hour of ISR capacity spent verifying bomb damage in Isfahan is an hour not spent tracking the mines being laid by Hormozgan provincial IRGC naval units in the shipping lanes. The same Mosaic Doctrine that runs the permissioned chokepoint benefits from every asset the US diverts to the air campaign over the mainland. The blockade does not need to shoot down a single drone. It needs the drones to be busy somewhere else. This is the cost asymmetry running in both directions simultaneously. Iran spends thousands on Shahed drones that force the US to spend millions on interceptors. The US spends $30 million per Reaper that Iran shoots down with mobile systems costing a fraction of the airframe they destroy. Meanwhile the provincial IRGC commands running the strait operate on radio handsets and standing orders that cost nothing and cannot be bombed. The most expensive military campaign since 2003 is being fought alongside the cheapest blockade in modern history. The air campaign burns through Reapers at 10 percent of fleet in seventeen days. The blockade burns through nothing. It runs on pre-delegated authority, allied diplomacy, and the biological clock of a planting season that does not send invoices. Eleven drones down. $330 million spent. The strait is more closed today than when the first Reaper launched. The war the Pentagon designed is being won. The war that matters is being lost. And the difference is measured not in airframes but in urea tonnes that are not moving through a chokepoint that no drone can reopen. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Don Winslow@donwinslow·
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The New Republic
The New Republic@newrepublic·
Trump Quietly Tries to Free FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens trib.al/lOHawK9
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Bill Madden
Bill Madden@maddenifico·
Happy St. Patrick's Day. 😂🤣
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Don Winslow
Don Winslow@donwinslow·
Dear MAGA, If Donald Trump is so respected around the world, why has every major world leader said no to helping him protect the The Strait of Hormuz? They are all saying no to a clown. The world sees what you fail to see: Trump is a CLOWN.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
This absolute moron says he didn't know recently-resigned Joe Kent (the counter terrorism Director), but he "always thought he was weak on security." REALLY? THEN WHY DID YOU HIRE HIM? 🤡
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Tom Santos
Tom Santos@tommysantos14·
When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.
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