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**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Le Monde Best Book of 2025
'Amazing ... My book of the year' Alastair Campbell, The Rest Is Politics
'Chilling' Financial Times
'Blistering' Economist
'Excellent' Lewis Goodall
'A cracking book ... Reads like a thriller' Matt Frei, LBC
March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war?
In If Russia Wins, military expert and Professor of International Relations at the University of Munich, Carlo Masala explores these questions and underlines what is at stake in Ukraine in the starkest possible terms.
For those of us who have only ever known peace, we are accustomed to everything turning out well in the end. But what if it doesn't?
Translated from the German by Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
Contents
Introduction: Introduction 1: Narva, Estonia: 27 March 2028 2: Palais des Nations, Geneva: Three years earlier 3: Europe and the United States: A wind of change 4: Russia: A thaw in Moscow? 5: Ukraine: A country in chaos 6: Brussels: Limited defence capabilities 7: Moscow: Strategy 8: Kidal, Mali: 2 February 2028: The game is on 9: Brussels: 5 February 2028: Europe takes the bait 10: South China Sea: 28 February 2028: Help from an ally 11: Seattle: 27 March 2028, 01:00 UTC 12: Berlin: 27 March 2028, 02:20 UTC 13: Berlin: 27 March 2028, 06:30 UTC 14: Moscow: 27 March 2028, 07:00 UTC 000 15: NATO Headquarters, Brussels: 27 March 2028, 12:00 UTC 16: The White House, Washington, DC: 27 March 2028, 12:15 UTC 17: 80o 49' 35.2? N, 66o 27' 12.5? W: 28 March 2028, 10:27 UTC 18: NATO Headquarters, Brussels: 28 March 2028, 14:00 UTC 19: Rzhev, Russia: 29 March 2028, 07:00 UTC 20: Moscow and Beijing: 30 March 2028: A new centre Afterword: Afterword
