• Putin's Playbook

  • Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
  • By: Rebekah Koffler
  • Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
  • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (292 ratings)

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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

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Pure Right Wing Propaganda. Right out of Putins Playbook

I purchased this book to aid in my studies on US, foreign affairs. While some things are useful, the informed reader has to deal with many outright falsehoods put out by this very conservative biased author. Gen Flynn is not a patriot, but a Q-anon following, convicted (self admitted in guilty plea) liar about Russia. This author admits Russian meddling with elections then spins it in the very next paragraph and says there’s no evidence of it. It’s a book for scare tactics to make uninformed Americans think they are losing their democracy by democrats. I’m disappointed, as I was looking for a non-biased thesis on Putins motivations and methods. This book is unfortunately filled with contradictions as many assertions have since been proven opposite of the authors view in courts of law.

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Thank you

This should be read by every citizen and resident of the USA. Especially professors and teachers who IMO don’t realize they are traitors to this Country.

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Americans need to hear this

The perspective of the native born Russian is invaluable for Americans to understand our cultural and philosophical differences. Rebekah lays out our naivety with simple and well documented facts. We need to understand and study the Russian perspective as well as they have studied ours. This book is the perfect first step in that process.
Her experiences with the bureaucracy also needs to inform the American public that we have serious issues regarding unaccountability of unelected officials acting like a ruling class accountable only to themselves.
Well done Rebekah and thanks for your continuing service to our country!

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Awesome!

A very eye opening look into Putin and Russia. We need more Americans like Rebekah Koffler — more now than ever! I will be purchasing hard copies of this book as well!

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Disgruntled and Partisan

The author would have made a stronger argument and appeared more credible if she would have focused more on Putin’s Playbook and less on politics. Came across as disgruntled and partisan. I’m a 27 year active duty service member and feel General Flynn’s actions actions were nearly treasonous. Unbecoming.

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The book is biased and incorrect, don't buy!

Recommended by a friend, this author is not to be trusted. In the first few minutes, you hear "Trump/Russia collusion witchhunt," and that (falsely) the Mueller report vindicates Trump. The author then says that her ex-boss Michael Flynn was persecuted and is a great guy.

Don't bother buying this propaganda. I'm returning it.

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Well written, smart, and what we need.

The talking heads hate this book because it's full of what we need to save ourselves from the threats both outside and from within. Written by someone who actually experienced communism and knows the signs of what it looks like, where it comes from, and what it does to a society, this book provides insight into how recognize and deal with such evils.

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Typical right wing rhetoric.

Within the first 2 minutes, the "Trump/Russia collusion witchhunt" is deemed as being exactly that and the Mueller report vindicates Trump and Michael Flynn is referred to as an American hero.

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Overall I think its a good book but(redacted)

The author is in a difficult position trying to present examples to develop her stores. She has overcome great obstacles and hurdles and should be commended for her accomplishments. I did get frustrated with all the redactions hence my joke. Seriously though
the U.S. needs her now more than ever.

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Her defense of Michael Flynn

Destroys any credibility or legitimacy she might have had. Why she puts her views on this in her forward other than a poor attempt at legitimatizing Trumpism is nonsensical at best. If I had bought this as a paper book I would burn it..

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