If Russia Wins, Carlo Masala
If Russia Wins, Carlo Masala
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If Russia Wins
A Scenario

Author: Carlo Masala

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 2 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/11/2025


Synopsis

A #1 international bestseller from a NATO expert, this deeply researched and chillingly plausible scenario imagines what might happen should Putin defeat Ukraine and not stop there.

March 2028. Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After a victorious peace deal in Ukraine, Putin’s long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. What if Ukraine was only the beginning? What will the NATO alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war?

Day by day and hour by hour, renowned political scientist Carlo Masala plays out what might happen when the President of the United States is called on to uphold NATO’s commitment to mutual defense, just as China’s maneuvers in Asia provide welcome distraction.

A timely, gripping, and thought-provoking scenario, in less than 130 pages, If Russia Wins shows how our world order is poised on a knife-edge. In the United States, we are accustomed to everything working out in our favor, in the end. But what if it doesn’t? What if Russia wins?

About Carlo Masala

Carlo Masala is a professor for international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich. He previously worked as deputy director in the research department at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Since January 2024, Masala has been director of the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. He received the Lichtenberg Medal in Gold from the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in 2023 for his academic work and science communication. If Russia Wins was an immediate #1 bestseller upon publication in Germany and has since become a bestseller in the Netherlands. It is forthcoming in fourteen territories around the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on May 12, 2025

English: If Russia Wins: A Scenario How fragile is NATO, the central alliance founded to defend European peace? Masala is an expert for armed conflicts teaching at the University of the Bundeswehr (Bundeswehr being the German military), and he's also in a high demand as a public intellectual, because......more

Goodreads review by Anna on March 20, 2025

Gutes Buch, ich hab jetzt Magengeschwüre.......more

Goodreads review by Robin on April 30, 2025

Beangstigend scenario dat helemaal niet zo onrealistisch lijkt als het voor de meesten misschien nu nog lijkt. Wat doen “we” als Rusland inderdaad een “onbenullig” stukje Estland inneemt “ter bescherming van de Russische minderheid”? Hopelijk hebben we van Chamberlain geleerd dat appeasement politie......more

Goodreads review by Gijs on December 16, 2025

Gitzwart, treffend scenario dat met urgentie de strategische kwetsbaarheden van NAVO uiteenzet, maar dat tegelijkertijd teveel wegheeft van een tekst die ook de basis van simulatie in een Model-NATO voor middelbare scholieren of een Clingendael training had kunnen zijn.......more