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Putin's Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls Paperback – October 24, 2017
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Publication dateOctober 24, 2017
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- Publisher : Pamil Visions (October 24, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3981891902
- ISBN-13 : 978-3981891904
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
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- #912 in Russian & Former Soviet Union Politics
- #5,984 in Political Commentary & Opinion
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Phil Butler is a digital, media, and geopolitical analyst, who was first influential in the Web technology space. After joining a prominent digital public relations firm in Germany, Pamil Visions PR, he became an influencer on internet media relations.
As a digital analyst and futurist, Butler examined and advised major web-based companies on leveraging online traditional and social media. His work during this time enabled technology startup companies to achieve success in a highly competitive market, providing forward-looking marketing services that promoted them to better understand the digital media landscape. As a result of his work in this field, Butler helped develop some of the most successful digital PR and marketing strategies.
At the onset of the new “media war” in between the United States and EU actors, Butler served as an analyst to help independent media better understand the tools being arrayed against Russia and all opponents to the globalist narrative. A sought-after media analyst and speaker, Butler has been a guest on RTTV, Russia One TV, NTV Russia, and a cited authority by dozens of other major independent media outlets worldwide.
He now lives on the Island of Crete in Greece with his wife Mihaela, and their young son Paul-Jules.
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This book is far from perfect. If the reader is of an inclination to only appreciate and offer kudos to flowing and eloquent prose, and an absence of grammatical and other errors – that is to say, to a polished work of professional persuasion – then reading Putin's Praetorians will gift such a mind-set ample cause for valid critique.
For my part, I suggest that these "flaws" only add a considerable weight to the strength of the argument contained within its pages.
Here you will find the personal testimonies – each related with a clearly heartfelt sincerity – of real and endearingly authentic, predominantly "common" human beings, from a wide array of private, professional, and political backgrounds spanning the globe, including some surprising locales, such as the Amazon jungle. Each one of these former "sleepers" testifies with a compelling individuality, to having been spontaneously "activated" into action, not by Putin or "the Kremlin" or by "Russian propaganda", but instead, by a profoundly awakened personal conscience, and a provoked sensitivity to evidences of rank injustice, double standards, and bald-faced lies by the Western Establishment, now directed against Russia, her leaders, people, values, and culture, and against any, great or small, who would dare to voice any opinion even faintly deviant from an official narrative so clearly permeated with and driven by unwarranted malice and hostility.
This book contains a plethora of fascinating and at times shocking facts and insights concerning the backgrounds to and the actualities of the geopolitical, military, and (dis)information conflicts in and about the post-Soviet space at the behest of US-NATO hegemonic and financial interests, including Chechnya and the wider Caucasus region, Georgia 2008, and Ukraine 2014 through present. Many of these insights come to us borne of direct, on-the-ground experience of their narrator-confessors. These "trolls" can be described as unsung and for the most part unknown (in the West) heroes of these conflicts, and of the now rapidly growing global volunteer war against what has come to be branded "fake news". It is a worthy purchase for this information alone.
Without wishing in any way to detract from the fascinating and highly informative confessions of these "unknowns", two cameo contributions in the concluding chapters warrant a special acknowledgement for their insight, intelligence, forthrightness, erudition, humility, and unadorned spirit of a common humanity, desirous only of peace and friendship – those of former Russian special forces "Alpha group" member Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav ("Stas") Stankevich, and of the Editor-in-Chief of the RT network, Margarita Simonyan.
In a world where it can often seem as though the Western Establishment corporate media and "Deep State" monopoly's 24/7/365 tsunami of lies, half-truths, doublethink, distortions, outright fabrications, and increasingly overt censorship represents an overwhelming and unstoppable force for evil, this book will offer the thoughtful and conscientious reader a sense of hope, and inspiration to do likewise.
That is, to "speak truth to power".
Most of the “Trolls” are already known to me, and I recognize their journeys during which the Sochi Winter Olympics and the following events in Ukraine at the beginning of 2014, became the drips that made the glass flow over.
Therefore, many like me will find the revelation by the Russian “Trolls,” like Andrei (the Saker), Vladimir and Stas, the most interesting.
The outstanding take away from reading the book is the complete picture Phil paints of a coordinated, multi-trillion dollar media attack bankrolled by sources also identified in the book.
An attack against the only country (and its leader) in the world standing up against the final (and waning) attempts by the “indispensable nation” to extinguish the independence of all other nations in the world.
There is only one flaw in the book. Phil should stop to use “globalism” and “New World Order” as the names of the threat against humanity.
Instead, he should call it for what it is, the hegemonic empire of bankers and their large corporations defending their existing greedy power of the Fed’s fiat-USD.
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For everybody interested in the information aspects of Cold War 2.0, this book is indispensable. For the casual reader, it is highly entertaining and raises a few very important questions: about fairness, about freedom, about human rights, about democracy - and about the people trying to manipulate and undermine these values while constantly trumpeting their adherence to them, while those who are trying to defend them sometimes choose strange allies in their struggle. It also raises many questions about the real significance and character of President Putin: could it be that this man is a much better democrat, under the circumstances of his country, than what he is usually being given credit for ? Is he Russia's Churchill or De Gaulle ? Or is he just the most brilliant of the 21st century autocrats, a modern version of Tsar Alexander I., that great idol and ruthless manipulator of Western European liberals and conservatives during the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period ? Has he perhaps a touch of both ? The modern world is a complex place, certainly not the Manichean battleground of Democracy versus Communism which was the reality of Cold War 1.0. It was this basic character of the confrontation that gave U.S. Presidents of very different character, stature and ethical probity a common and generally solid moral advantage. It made even the excesses of McCarthyism a bit more understandable, somewhat like a case of legitimate self-defence gone too far. There were certainly few exciting media in the Soviet period: it was the time when Soviet citizens used to joke that "Pravda" (literally "Truth") was so named because it contained no truth, while "Izvestija" (literally "news") owed its name to the fact that it never contained anything new. How much things have changed since that time will only be appreciated when you follow "Russia Today", "Sputnik" or "The Vineyard of the Saker" in the present information war. This is not to say that Russian media and their allies in the blogosphere never contain false information or even "fake news", they do. But their power comes much more from the true facts they are reporting than from their lies. Lies are short-legged, as the saying goes, as the information war is finally about confidence. This book needs to be read with a critical eye, but then it is a treasure trove of highly valuable facts and insight.
However, important is WHAT they tell us about Russia and Putin - a welcome and refreshing side compared to the stories from the Western MSM, of whom we are somewhat tired because most of them are so unbalanced. Possibly on purpose.
Therefore, whoever takes an interest in Russia and Putin, make sure you acquire this book.
Phil Butler certainly makes his points !


