Luke Grant is joined by Rebekah Koffler, Intelligence expert & National Security Commentator, to discuss her new book ‘Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America’.

Rebekah Koffler arrived in America as a young woman.  After 9/11, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, devoting her career to protecting her new country.  In her book 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, Ms 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.

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