Sooner or later, anyone who advocates helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression is called a warmonger. If you talk about the very real Russian threat to Europe, you’ll be labelled a fearmonger.
Carlo Masala, professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and author of the bestselling book If Russia Wins: A Scenario, takes criticism in his stride. “My reply is: I’m not interested in a war. Why do you accuse me of being a warmonger if my aim is to prevent the outbreak of a military conflict between Russia and Nato?”
In Masala’s geopolitical fiction, Ukraine was forced to sign a “peace accord” – in reality, capitulation – in Geneva in March 2025, because the West would not provide the wherewithal for it to keep fighting. Masala’s book is based on fact.
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