Putin's Playbook Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
19.08.2021
Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK LtdMaße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,6/3,8 cm
Gewicht
648 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-68451-003-0
Putin’s Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia’s ruler is following a carefully devised plan to defeat the United States.
Rebekah Koffler came to America as a young woman. After 9/11, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, devoting her career to protecting her new country. Now she reveals in chilling detail Putin’s long-range plan—his “playbook”—to weaken and subdue the United States, preparing for the war that he believes is inevitable.
With the insight of a native, Koffler explains how Russians, formed by centuries of war-torn history, understand the world and their national destiny. The collapse of the Soviet empire, which Putin experienced as a vulnerable KGB agent in East Germany, was a catastrophic humiliation. Seeing himself as the modern “Czar Vladimir” of a unique Slavic nation at war with the West, he is determined to restore Russia to its place as a great power.
Koffler’s analysis is enriched by her deeply personal account of her life in the Soviet Union. Devoted to her adopted homeland but concerned about the complacency of her fellow citizens, she appreciates American freedoms as only a survivor of totalitarianism can. An opportunity to view ourselves and the world through the eyes of our adversary, Putin’s Playbook is a rare and compelling testimony that we ignore at our peril.
Rebekah Koffler came to America as a young woman. After 9/11, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, devoting her career to protecting her new country. Now she reveals in chilling detail Putin’s long-range plan—his “playbook”—to weaken and subdue the United States, preparing for the war that he believes is inevitable.
With the insight of a native, Koffler explains how Russians, formed by centuries of war-torn history, understand the world and their national destiny. The collapse of the Soviet empire, which Putin experienced as a vulnerable KGB agent in East Germany, was a catastrophic humiliation. Seeing himself as the modern “Czar Vladimir” of a unique Slavic nation at war with the West, he is determined to restore Russia to its place as a great power.
Koffler’s analysis is enriched by her deeply personal account of her life in the Soviet Union. Devoted to her adopted homeland but concerned about the complacency of her fellow citizens, she appreciates American freedoms as only a survivor of totalitarianism can. An opportunity to view ourselves and the world through the eyes of our adversary, Putin’s Playbook is a rare and compelling testimony that we ignore at our peril.
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Bewertung am 10.09.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 2018545
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
The book recieves 2 stars for it's analysis of the Russian mentality and Putins (not so) secret plan for attacking western democracis. Mrs Koffler positions herself as a born Russian and now US citizen and patriot set out to defend her new homeland against the thread from Putins Euroasian strategy using her acclaimed unique deep insights into Russia.
Early in the book however it becomes clear that it has a strong bipartisan bias positioning Trump and e.g. Mrs Kofflers former chief General Michael Flynn as american patriots and Trump as being hard on Russia. It completely ignores Trumps role in asking for Clintons emails in 2015, his favoring of Putin over his own intelligence in Helsinki 2018 and both men's role in the 2020 insurrection undermining the very heart of the US: the democracy.
Later this is followed up with an attack on key US institutions like FBI and CIA, partially it seems, out of very personal reasons having ground in her own prematurely terminated career as an intelligence officer. By doing so she adopts Trumps "deep state" propagandistic terminology and actually plays into Putins attempt to undermine the west.
The book looses any sense of reality when it rounds off it's repeated attacks on the US democrats by throwing Bidens, Bernie Sanders and Sovjets "socialism" into one bag. They are actually 3 different things. Likewise she seems to lack any understanding of why the west need to help Ukraine, momentarily and on long term strategically.
The book would have been better and significantly shorter if Mrs Koffler could have kept herself out of the equation. A major objective of the book seems to be to defend herself following her dismissal as intelligence officer. The book ends up being unnecessarily long, somehow in draft status introducing acronyms at multiple places, politically biased, in contradiction with it's positioned goals and lacking clear unemotional factual analysis.
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