We Shall Outlast Them
Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West
18 September 2026
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
The chilling and revelatory story of how Russia’s confrontation with the West went global
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. As a result, Russia refocused its entire state machinery on one purpose: to outlast the West. Russia foreign policy analyst Hanna Notte uncovers how Russia reinvented itself, outmanoeuvring sanctions, forging surprising alliances, charming the Global South and sowing fear in Western societies. Putin is the one pulling the strings but he is not the only player: propagandists, diplomats, businessmen and rogue agents have done Russia’s bidding. From civilian shelters to military bases, presidential palaces to tense borderlands, Notte chronicles the untold stories of those waging Russia’s battles–and of everyday people swept up in Putin’s agenda. Blending analysis with reportage from more than a dozen countries, We Shall Outlast Them paints a sweeping picture of Putin’s wartime adaptation and illuminates how Russia has fostered enduring appeal around the globe.
Reviews
"We Shall Outlast Them presents convincing insights into Putin’s statecraft" — Richard Horan, The Irish Times
"With lucid and zippy writing, Notte takes us from the ports of India to the deserts of the Sahel, revealing how Russia has survived in the face of coordinated and extensive sanctions by Europe and the United States" — Laura Mills, Foreign Policy
"[A]n informed, gripping but also alarming account of how Russian foreign policy has sought to weaken the West in response to the support given to Ukraine." — Lawrence Freedman, Comment is Freed Substack
"[Notte's] reporting is meticulous, the descriptions vivid, and the conclusion bleak: Russia is using the West’s own weakness to beat us." — Edward Lucas
