William Collins From Russia with Blood: Putin’S Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

Excellent insight into Putin and the FSB

I read this immediately after reading Anonymous' A Warning. Both provide a sobering reminder of the threat to democracy.

I think by now Americans understand that winning the cold war did not result in any success over or in Russia. Russia became an organized crime state and Don Putin has been scamming the west for 20 years now, by exporting organized crime, encouraging hacking against western institutions, and other strategies from the fraudsters toolbox. For a guy who pays homage to the defunct USSR, Putin sure craves kleptocracy and has no interest in changing that.The book is well written, objective, and easy to read. Lots of resources went into writing it.Too bad many Russian people are very susceptible to conspiracy theories, obscurantism, the occult, sham elections, civil rights suppression, censorship, dependent judiciary, corruption, bribery, and many highly esteemed of mafia. Some of the people Putin murdered perhaps deserved it, but there have been too many innocent people too.Tony Blair was the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century. I’ve been perplexed on how western leaders can be diplomatic and cozy up with a murderer, all because of the f. dirty money.Michelle Young was much the gold digger.All Rumpists should read this book.Good thing Russian sanctions have been placed and I hope they continue.The Evil Empire reference made by Reagan is actually more applicable to Putin's Russia.USA!, USA!, USA!

A "holy cow" read. One of my best reads of 2019. Anyone that wonders how Putin could possibly hold something over Trump should read thisTrump wishes he were Putin for these reasons. Also very shocking how English government turned the other cheek while it's citizens were being murdered

This is an absolutely fascinating and bone-chilling book. Reading it was like having a box of chocolates open in front of me: do I follow my passions and eat the box in a single day, or be rationale and stretch it out over several days. I managed to stretch reading the book out over 36 hours.