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Rebekah Koffler

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Rebekah Koffler is managing editor of an e-mail newsletter for independent thinkers, CutToTheNews.com. She is a former senior intelligence analyst with the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the author of a best-selling book, "Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America."

The Archive

What the West fears most about Putin’s arsenal of nuclear weapons

April 23, 2022 | 9:05am

On April 15, Zelensky announced that the world should “be ready” for the possibility that Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin's childhood teacher, Vera Dmitriyevna Gurevich, now 88, may be the only person in the world who could convince him to stop his bloody siege in Ukraine.

Vlad education: This 88-year-old ex-teacher may be the world's only hope of ending Ukraine war

March 25, 2022 | 7:26am

Why an 88-year-old ex-teacher could be the one person to convince Russia's brutal leader to end the war.

Growing up in Leningrad, Putin fended off rats with a stick in his apartment building, and never forgot how one fought back fiercely when forced into a corner. He vowed to do the same in any conflict: "There is no retreat."

How Putin’s rat-infested childhood shaped his philosophy on war

March 12, 2022 | 7:56am

As a youngster growing up in the 1960s, Putin was a typical Russian hooligan.

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The lies, affairs and greed that made Putin the ‘world’s richest man’

March 1, 2022 | 7:38pm

Though he presents himself as a common man, Russian President Vladimir Putin has led a clandestine life filled with mysterious affairs, czar-worthy palace intrigue and incalculable wealth.

The bitter joke behind President Biden’s sanctions is that Vladimir Putin has been engineering the Russian economy for such moves since 2014 — by shedding US holdings and shoring up Chinese and European investments.

Why US sanctions on Russia won’t stop Putin’s blitzkrieg in Ukraine

February 24, 2022 | 4:52pm

As Russia invaded Ukraine and bombings rocked cities across the country this week, President Vladimir Putin’s aggression was on full display.

Vladimir Putin’s endgame of destabilizing Washington got a boost from Hillary Clinton and Obama-administration intel officials, who peddled a Trump collusion narrative practically scripted by the Kremlin.

Durham report proves Hillary Clinton — not Trump — was Putin’s puppet

February 17, 2022 | 5:24pm

Since 2016, Hillary Clinton has been trolling Donald Trump on social media over his alleged ties to Russia, calling him “Putin’s Puppet.” But Special Counsel John Durham’s probe has uncovered...

Take it from a child of the USSR-turned-US intel officer: Flagging Joe Rogan’s podcast with “content” warnings is the same way the Kremlin regulates media outlets.

The censoring of Joe Rogan is a tactic right out of old Soviet Union

February 5, 2022 | 7:58am

The recent Joe Rogan vs. Spotify scandal is not about COVID — it’s about the future of free speech in America.

In recent weeks, Putin has amped up Russia’s military presence on the border with Ukraine. Many Western officials see his actions as “irrational,” but they’re actually rooted in four key beliefs.

Why 'madman' Putin and his Ukraine shenanigans are entirely logical

January 22, 2022 | 8:03am

He has stationed more than 100,000 troops on his country’s border with Ukraine, and issued a list of impossible demands to the US and NATO.

The US and Russian presidents met Tuesday for an online summit in which Biden made promises and Putin guaranteed nothing.

Make Russia great again: How Putin is using Biden

December 11, 2021 | 7:54am

The mere act of Putin having a one-on-one meeting with the US president is a win for Moscow’s spymaster.

The US sent Russian hacker Alexei Burkov (center) back to his homeland in September, where Moscow put on a big show of him being detained — but he’s likely now “freelancing” for Putin.

Biden’s naivete about Russian cyber warfare puts US in danger

November 13, 2021 | 7:30am

The Biden Administration released back to Russia the world’s most dangerous cybercriminal, Alexei Burkov.

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller faces a court-martial for calling out his superiors — evidence of the Pentagon’s “intolerance of dissent.”

Stuart Scheller court martial for Afghanistan pullout is double standard

October 9, 2021 | 7:31am

The court-martial of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller shows how the Pentagon's subversion and double standards endanger Americans.

Unaccountable bureaucrats failed to understand the Afghani people and the insurgents’ willingness to resist — even with weaker weapons — leading to more than 6,000 US deaths.

US ‘experts’ who created Afghanistan mess should be fired for malpractice

August 28, 2021 | 7:49am

Why do we tolerate the national security “experts” at the helm of the US government, who pursue ruinous policies that cost trillions in taxpayer money and countless American lives?

President Biden seeks a reset with Russia as spymaster Vladimir Putin and his minions attack US intelligence officials with nonlethal weapons.

New attacks on US officials prove Russia is our enemy, not our friend

July 31, 2021 | 8:22am

President Biden is on a mission to try yet another “reset” with Russia. He’s reached out to Vladimir Putin for a summit that took place in June.