Defeat russia

A groundbreaking book on the historical roots of the project to “decolonize” Russia: from Pilsudski to Brzezinski, from the Intermarium to the Three Seas Initiative, Martin Bernard reveals a century of strategies aimed at reshaping Eastern Europe and containing Moscow.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, an idea has taken hold in certain Western political circles: Russia should not only be contained, but “decolonized,” or even fragmented. Martin Bernard shows that this perspective did not emerge in 2022. It is part of a long history that began in the early 20th century with two geopolitical doctrines now largely forgotten: Prometheism, which aimed to weaken Russia from within by supporting non-Russian peoples, and the Intermarium, a project for a bloc of states located between the Baltic, the Adriatic, and the Black Sea.

Through a dense and well-documented investigation, the author traces a centu