shannonmonaghan.bsky.social
Historian of modern war (PhD, FRHistS) / Ukraine book TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN (Hurst 2025) / WWII-Cold war book A QUIET COMPANY OF DANGEROUS MEN (Viking 2024) www.shannonmonaghan.com
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@shannonmonaghan.bsky.socialIt's true that everything that happens in the world is because of us. 🇱🇹 runs the world on Mondays and Thursdays, 🇱🇻 on Tuesdays and Fridays, 🇪🇪 on Wednesdays and Saturdays. On Sundays we rest, pick mushrooms, have a barbecue and discuss how we'll rule the world the next week.
Show PostSame experience here. I wonder whether those people who think military studies experts think war is fun also believe oncologists have chosen their field due to a special liking for cancerous tumors, and that they consider chemotherapy fun?
Show PostMeanwhile, against the backdrop of the Acropolis, Rubio lectures "the West"... that there is nothing wrong with thinking about yourself first. For that's what the ancient Athenians were like, or so he says. Maybe. One thing is clear: they were fiercely anti-corruption.
Show PostThis is not my area of expertise and I will probably delete eventually. But I have just encountered this a bit too much in discussions recently: if you want a strong social state, you need to make sure it does not feel completely loopsided where one group pays for the other - and ONLY for the other.
Show PostYes since 2025 European involvement in Ukraine’s defence effort has both deepened and widened. Trump’s return to the White House was a watershed moment. European countries now host Ukrainian production and logistics to the extent that Russia has started to consider Europe as Ukraine’s ”rear”.
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