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Putin's Playbook

Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America

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Putin's Playbook

By: Rebekah Koffler
Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
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Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals.

In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multifaceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a superpower and to defeat America in the process. Koffler explains the Putin-ordered five-point master plan to defeat America, which includes spies, satellite killers, bombers, lasers, undersea cable cutters, cyber trolls, nuclear missiles, assassinations, and special techniques that Russia uses to distort Americans’ perceptions of reality. Koffler also reveals how Moscow plans to turn our strengths - such as our open, democratic society, the technology that pervades every sphere of our lives, and our aversion to war casualties - into vulnerabilities.

Koffler explores the military components of Russia’s strategy, including its powerful arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons and the advanced new weaponry unveiled the day after the 2018 Trump-Putin Helsinki summit. She details why Moscow views America’s dependency on satellite technology for military operations as our country’s “Achilles’ heel” and alerts listeners to the newly erected National Center for State Defense, a wartime structure. Finally, there is a discussion of why Moscow violated the US-Russian Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The picture is clear, warns Koffler: Putin is mobilizing his country for the “inevitable” war.

Koffler reminds us it’s imperative that the full extent of the Russian threat be revealed, both to those who are increasingly concerned and those who are just beginning to feel uneasy about foreign interference in, and manipulation of, our daily lives. The “warning system”, as Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence, declared, is “blinking red”.

©2021 Rebekah Koffler (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
Freedom & Security Politics & Government Russian & Soviet Espionage Military War Thought-Provoking National Security

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The book lets itself down in the end... morphing from an interesting, insightful read to a self-serving god loving, republican adoring story.

Replace the last section of the book with something less overt.

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the author has an axe to grind

I struggled with the authors perspective of American politics and her criticism of the intelligence institutions

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pretty obvious the author is a republican 😂

enjoyed it, was hard to listen to at parts though

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Interesting insight into Putin but is held back by the authors own narcissism and Trumpish leanings

I enjoyed this book for most part. It was an insightful dive into Russian intelligence strategy. But there were many points that turned me off. Koffler spends a lot of time trying to persuade the reader of her credibility, competency, how she was unjustifiably pushed out of her job, jealous co-workers who resented that she was working too hard and making people look bad. The chapter at the end that has nothing to do with Putin but serves as an opportunity for Koffler to push her own victim narrative.

Koffler goes out of her way to tell the reader early on that she isn’t going to be pushing any particular political persuasion. Her support for Trump is not subtle in this book, regularly defending him and criticising everybody else (often throwing blanket socialist accusations at anyone who doesn’t share her ultra-nationalistic point of view).

If you can look past these flaws, you’ll learn something new. But perhaps look elsewhere.

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Unfortunate

The writer’s distorted personal political views unfortunately overshadows an otherwise very insightful read. Most unfortunate

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Could not get to the end.

From someone outside the US it is very obvious this woman does not know the difference between communism, socialism, dictatorships and a kleptocracy. I live in a socialist democracy and I certainly don’t live in poverty and I am not one of the government Elite. for somebody in intelligent services her sweeping statements were embarrassing and I could not finish the book. I think her experience with corrupt communism damaged her ability to be objective over all. I wonder if her ‘ processed data’ reflects her personal bias as much as this book did.

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Essential knowledge

Putin is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity since Adolf Hitler. This book explains why

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Fascinating

In the words of Martine Luther King ‘ I judge a man by his own principles not that of my own’ I think that sums up this fascinating read on the Russian mindset therefor its threat and why we cat look at Russia through a western lens.

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Well written

What the USA and the west needs to read history. We have had Putins throughout 1930\40s. Hilter worked on the gutless west would not stop him. Putin can be read like a book, dear author you just did that, the DIA heads should be replaced with people who have a brain for the Russian mind set.

The USA is a nation that’s rely on high tech weapon, I feel this will end badly for the people of the USA. Your adopted country needs people like you, how your people starts to learn to pull together, before it’s to late. All the best keep writing.

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Right wing propaganda

If you are looking for unvarnished information about Putin, you are getting a support argument for trump and michael Flynn. My money wasted.

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