Shannon Monaghan
@shannonmonaghan.bsky.social
Military Historian (PhD) / 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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To Die With Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International Legion
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My new book To Die With Such Men, which follows a unit of Western volunteers fighting in Ukraine, is out in the US today:
"Even if you have experienced combat, these men's incredible courage, toughness and loyalty to each other leaves you in awe." -- Gen. Walter Boomer (Retd), USMC
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"Even if you have experienced combat, these men's incredible courage, toughness and loyalty to each other leaves you in awe." -- Gen. Walter Boomer (Retd), USMC
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Three days later, some of our mainstream media are latching on to who has been hoodwinked by Russia into endorsing the 28-point “peace plan”, and how easy it was for Moscow.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/979bdd6...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/979bdd6...
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Three days later, some of our mainstream media are latching on to who has been hoodwinked by Russia into endorsing the 28-point “peace plan”, and how easy it was for Moscow.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/979bdd6...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/979bdd6...
"[...] people understand that, if we surrender to Russia in a meaningful way, more and not fewer people will die. For any deal to go through, someone has to convince the civilians and military in Ukraine that their lives will be protected and that war won’t resume.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
For a Weakened Zelensky, Yielding to Trump Is Riskier Than Defiance
With most Ukrainians rejecting a surrender, he would court a crisis with his own military if he accepted major concessions to Russia.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"[...] people understand that, if we surrender to Russia in a meaningful way, more and not fewer people will die. For any deal to go through, someone has to convince the civilians and military in Ukraine that their lives will be protected and that war won’t resume.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Axios is sayings russians couldn't leak it because its a US plan and
russians are saying Ukranians leaked it.
So we atleast know, for fact, that its russian plan that russians leaked it
russians are saying Ukranians leaked it.
So we atleast know, for fact, that its russian plan that russians leaked it
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Axios is sayings russians couldn't leak it because its a US plan and
russians are saying Ukranians leaked it.
So we atleast know, for fact, that its russian plan that russians leaked it
russians are saying Ukranians leaked it.
So we atleast know, for fact, that its russian plan that russians leaked it
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Well there’s certainly no basis for negotiations now. I feel a bit sorry for everyone who has to go to Geneva for nothing. Maybe they can still cancel
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Well there’s certainly no basis for negotiations now. I feel a bit sorry for everyone who has to go to Geneva for nothing. Maybe they can still cancel
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My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.
Trump's ultimatum and the limits of US leverage over Ukraine
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.
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On the Holodomor Commemoration Day, spare a thought for all innocent Ukrainian victims of the Soviet-made famine.
Impunity is never a path towards peace. It's a highway to violence, slaughter and barbarism.
Impunity is never a path towards peace. It's a highway to violence, slaughter and barbarism.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
On the Holodomor Commemoration Day, spare a thought for all innocent Ukrainian victims of the Soviet-made famine.
Impunity is never a path towards peace. It's a highway to violence, slaughter and barbarism.
Impunity is never a path towards peace. It's a highway to violence, slaughter and barbarism.
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
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This is a small thing, but the media needs to stop talking as if Trump has unfettered capacity to force Ukraine into anything. He is trying to. That’s all.
Ukraine’s staunchest allies held emergency talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa in an attempt to stop Donald Trump forcing Kyiv to hand swathes of territory to Russia in a lopsided peace deal.
Ukraine’s allies rush to counter Trump’s ‘non-starter’ peace plan
Leaders of the EU, Britain and other Kyiv allies voice ‘concern’ at U.S.’s proposed peace deal with Russia.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is a small thing, but the media needs to stop talking as if Trump has unfettered capacity to force Ukraine into anything. He is trying to. That’s all.
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Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
macspaunday.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
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Exactly. In reality, there is no choice for Zelensky, because accepting Trump's plan is off the table. What this statement is about is mobilizing the public both at home and abroad.
This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.
NEW: Brutal to watch Zelensky address his nation just now. On the brink of being abandoned by the US.
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Exactly. In reality, there is no choice for Zelensky, because accepting Trump's plan is off the table. What this statement is about is mobilizing the public both at home and abroad.
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Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
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Future historians, if there are any, will call our time the age of indecency and dishonour.
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Future historians, if there are any, will call our time the age of indecency and dishonour.
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President Zelenskyy addressed the nation. Key points from his address:
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
President Zelenskyy addressed the nation. Key points from his address:
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
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Helpful reminder that both Kyiv and its European partners can safely ignore Trump's pushes for a bad peace deal.
Keep in mind that since this year, it is us Europeans who pay for all the aid to Ukraine. Nothing comes from the U.S since Trump became president. We even pay for the American weapons bought for Ukraine.
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Helpful reminder that both Kyiv and its European partners can safely ignore Trump's pushes for a bad peace deal.
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On the leaked and thus not-so-secret US-Russia ”peace plan”:
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
On the leaked and thus not-so-secret US-Russia ”peace plan”:
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
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In this book, I discuss parallels from the Second World War period on sexual violence, denazification, propaganda, killing civilians, weaponization of food and more. I also discuss complicity of "ordinary Russians" and how the instrumentalization of history by Russia dehumanized Ukrainians.
Forthcoming in February 2026, my new book Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, out with ibidem Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. cup.columbia.edu/book/replayi...
Replaying the Second World War | Columbia University Press
Oleksa Drachewych argues that Russia’s instrumentalization of its memory of WWII has played a significant role in leading Russian forces to commit similar ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
In this book, I discuss parallels from the Second World War period on sexual violence, denazification, propaganda, killing civilians, weaponization of food and more. I also discuss complicity of "ordinary Russians" and how the instrumentalization of history by Russia dehumanized Ukrainians.
Great info as always, and a very important warning about potential Russian escalation of the (non-hybrid) war elsewhere in Europe at the end.
After a short hiatus on YouTube, I am back with a Q&A video. I discuss missiles, Russia's war economy, who is winning the war, and whether Denmark can close the straits to Russian ships. Watch it here.
Q&A: Missiles, strategy, shadow fleet, Russia's economy
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Great info as always, and a very important warning about potential Russian escalation of the (non-hybrid) war elsewhere in Europe at the end.
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Germany Tries Something New—and Risky—on Defense Acquisitions
And I argue that that’s a good thing.
My latest for @wpr.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-dron...
And I argue that that’s a good thing.
My latest for @wpr.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-dron...
Germany Tries Something New—and Risky—on Defense Acquisitions
In procuring drones, Germany is applying the lessons that Western armed forces should be taking from the war in Ukraine.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Germany Tries Something New—and Risky—on Defense Acquisitions
And I argue that that’s a good thing.
My latest for @wpr.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-dron...
And I argue that that’s a good thing.
My latest for @wpr.bsky.social
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-dron...
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Russia's insatiable demand for bodies to feed the meatgrinder of its war on Ukraine has a real and tragic human cost for the Global South. Here @munira.bsky.social in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social describes deceit and exploitation in Africa, South Asia and beyond.
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The trafficking networks sustaining Russia’s war of attrition
As Putin seeks to avoid another politically damaging mobilisation, the temptation to draw on Moscow's extensive global trafficking networks will only grow.
engelsbergideas.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Russia's insatiable demand for bodies to feed the meatgrinder of its war on Ukraine has a real and tragic human cost for the Global South. Here @munira.bsky.social in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social describes deceit and exploitation in Africa, South Asia and beyond.
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
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Forthcoming in February 2026, my new book Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, out with ibidem Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. cup.columbia.edu/book/replayi...
Replaying the Second World War | Columbia University Press
Oleksa Drachewych argues that Russia’s instrumentalization of its memory of WWII has played a significant role in leading Russian forces to commit similar ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Forthcoming in February 2026, my new book Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, out with ibidem Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. cup.columbia.edu/book/replayi...
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This would be great but it’s kinda funny that Germany would still have a small total force + reserve than Finland (wartime strength 280,000 and total reserve about 900,000)
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This would be great but it’s kinda funny that Germany would still have a small total force + reserve than Finland (wartime strength 280,000 and total reserve about 900,000)
www.ft.com/content/6cbf...
www.ft.com/content/6cbf...
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I have had another great talk with Jonathan from @siliconcurtain.bsky.social. You can listen to it here.
As Russia reduces Povrovsk to rubble, a transformation of battlefield tactics is taking place, forced by the rapid evolution of 'saturated' drone warfare. Drones favour the defender, but also mean that Russia is more of a threat. With @anderspucknielsen.dk - youtu.be/8p7oiuXe71g
Pokrovsk - Are Russian Logistics & Reserves 'Breaking' in Besieged City?
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
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November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I have had another great talk with Jonathan from @siliconcurtain.bsky.social. You can listen to it here.
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore on Ukraine: "'This is a very, very winnable contest,' he says. 'It’s particularly important that we don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.'" www.ft.com/content/acfe...
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore: Britain must regain the ‘power of example’
The outgoing head of the Secret Intelligence Service on the rise of China, why Putin is not interested in talks — and how screen spies aren’t always far from the truth
www.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Former MI6 chief Richard Moore on Ukraine: "'This is a very, very winnable contest,' he says. 'It’s particularly important that we don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.'" www.ft.com/content/acfe...