Kirkus Professional Book Reviewers said: "Graham's new book is an intriguing and informative 'must read' from a woman who is probably the best-informed American on the terrifying realities concerning Vladimir Putin's motivations.
WILMINGTON, NC, September 06, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham believes Donald Trump, the Russion invasion and a weaponized world economy creates a tipping point for democracy in the US. Her book, 'From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans' presents startling information regarding Putin's attempt to destroy American democracy from within. The eBook version will be available at no charge September 8 and 9 at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?.
Graham had a Top-Secret Security Clearance while a senior in high school, and immediately upon graduation began working undercover with the CIA. She later joined the SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center (FSRC) for 12 years. Eight of these years were spent studying Russia and Russian, and she managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence data base/library in the U.S. She began to travel to the Soviet Union and then became one of the very few Americans to move to the USSR. She lived under Communism in the Soviet Union, then Russia, and Central Asia long enough to become bi-cultural - she became Russian. Her first-hand knowledge and understanding of life in a communist or dictatorship country is shared with Americans in her book and in her Substack by the same name (egraham.substack.com). In a recent Substack post she wrote in part:
Our citizens have allowed a man to lead our country who touts that he is a master of the 'art of the deal.' He even published a book by this name. But like all that Donald Trump touches: his businesses, his hotels, his casinos, his nonprofit(s), his marriages, and now our country – destruction and chaos follow.
His list of crimes is matched only by his list of failed businesses. His illegal and brutal attacks on women and girls have embarrassed his families, ended several marriages, led to a conviction of sexual abuse, and more importantly also probably led to his entrapment by Russian KGB/FSB.
Trump's entrapment by the Russian KGB/FSB has been confirmed by General Oleg Kalugin who was the senior manager of the KGB operations in the United States for decades. (Craig Unger, "American Kompromat").
Trump has filed six bankruptcies, which crippled his lavish lifestyle. Western men who abnormally lust for women, cannot control their finances, think highly of themselves - narcissistic, conceited, and arrogant, and are willing to betray their country for money are the ideal target for Russian "kompromat." Over decades, the Russians provided Trump with funds to pay his bills and in all probability women to satisfy his lechery– but there was a catch. I can only speculate at the amount of critical, sensitive, and classified information Trump has fed to Russians to keep the lights on at Mar-a-Lago and with no regard for the safety of our country. This is treason in any language.
Trump in his narcissistic, self-focused world, does not understand that his acquiescent and subservient relationship with Putin is transparent. He has managed to close investigations and wiggle around this issue, but it has become increasingly obvious and visible.
Cassidy Hutchinson said that "Trump was terrified of being poisoned." (The Hill, Oct. 5, 2023) Poison is a commonly used lethal weapon for KGB/FSB, known world over. Their poison factory has been in continuous operation since Stalin (1921) and the Cheka – the predecessor to the KGB. This statement of fear expressed by Trump, is also a statement of guilt.
Trump is not equipped to negotiate deals with other countries – especially China, who out-witted him concerning his outlandish tariffs imposed on trade.
"When Washington announced a "framework deal" with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy" (Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct. 2025) – an issue that Trump previously but pathetically believed he controlled. China's ace in the hole was their monopoly of precious metals and the magnets made from such metals. They are essential for airplane turbine engines, and for a host of other high technologies. "This was not the beginning of U.S. President Trump's imagined epoch of 'liberation' under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration's dream of managed great-power rivalry." (Ibid)
Instead, "it was the true opening of the age of weaponized interdependence, in which the United States is discovering what it is like to have others do unto it as it has eagerly done unto others" (Ibid) – especially with Trump at the helm. 'This new era will be shaped by weapons of economic and technological coercion – sanctions, supply chain attacks, and export measures that repurpose the many points of control in the infrastructure that underpins the interdependent global economy." (Ibid) There is no room in this new international and interdependent economy for bullies – the sandbox is already full of other nations who play fairly. A concept that Trump cannot even fathom.
The sanctions placed on Russia by the United States and other European countries failed, and in fact it created other supply sources while gaining new business partners and allies for Russia. They now supply inexpensive gas and oil to Central Asia countries. In return these countries give Russia needed consumer goods - bought abroad but transversed through Central Asia. Imported cars intended for Russia now travel via Kyrghizstan for example. And according to Andrei Illarionov, a former economic advisor to Putin, the "world could sanction Russia, oligarchs, and 145 million Russians for decades, and this would not change the solidary decision-making process of Vladimir Putin." (From Democracy to Democrazy)
"Making the United States capable of holding its own in the age of weaponized interdependence will require more than just halting the rapid, unscheduled disassembly of the bureaucratic structures that constrain seat-of-the pants policy making and self-dealing" (Ibid) found in the Trump administration. "Europe is hampered by structural weaknesses, but the United States difficulties largely result from our own choices" (Ibid) – our nation chose a man for the Presidency who is a convicted criminal - a fraud and a felon, a man who attacks women in department store dressing rooms, has filed six bankruptcies and was saved from a seventh by Russian intervention. He sold his soul and our country to the Russians decades ago.
These facts cannot be denied. Since Trump has closed the Department of Education, over time the level of deductive reasoning and higher levels of cogitate, rational, and analytical thinking will diminish in the United States. Perhaps within ten years, most Americans will reason on the same grade-school level as Donald Trump, or those who can afford it will send their children to European schools.
''After decades of slowly building the complex machinery of economic warfare, the United States – due to Trump - is ripping it apart" (Ibid) along with all other essential institutional divisions. "In Trump's self-focused and narcissistic view, all institutional restraints on his power are illegitimate. And any policy what-so-ever is centered on Trump himself. As personalism replaces intelligent bureaucratic decision-making, short-term profit or self-gratification takes priority over long-term national interest and progress." (Ibid) The United States of America becomes a pariah in a world rapidly and aggressively growing while we digress.
Putin chose the right individual to destroy the United States, our democracy, and our lives – but the enormously sad fact is that the Trumpers and the MAGA followers are blind to Trump's lack of understanding of the global interdependent economy and the world dynamics of 2025. He cannot "make a deal for tariffs or any other business" since he cannot see beyond his own wallet. A failure to grasp this global reality will and has already put American security, progress, and prosperity at risk.
The full text of the piece is available at https://substack.com/@elizabethgraham.
Graham also announced the upcoming release of a new book, 'Survival: Democracy's Struggle To Survive'. 'Survival' is unlike other political or American government books available today. It is a comparative assessment, an inspiration, and an intriguing collection of Substack messages from some of the best-known and best selling authors in the last decade covering the terrifying realities of today's political life, U.S. government, global challenges, and critical current affairs. It is an exhaustively explored and thoroughly investigated analysis of the deep, dark, clandestine linkage between Trump and Putin - a relationship which has plagued world politics and dismantled the United States government since 2015. Contributing authors include Craig Unger, Charlie Sykes, Steven Beschloss, David Adelman and Dr. Sanford Mayer. The book will be released later in 2025.
All of this information and much more is available in Graham's book, 'From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans', now available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?. The bestselling eBook version will be available at no charge September 8 and 9, 2025 at Amazon. More information is available at her website at https://democrazy2020.org/.
About Elizabeth Graham:
Elizabeth Graham lives in a quiet rural city in northern Arizona. She had 4 children and has 3 grandchildren. Her oldest daughter died July 16, 2016 - three months before the U.S. 2016 election and while living/working in Japan. The Tokyo Police ruled her death a homicide by an unknown substance – possibly a poison - which is the signature lethal method used by Russians. There is more about her death in From Democracy to Democrazy.
Elizabeth was indoctrinated at a young age by her father who was a senior manager working undercover with the CIA. Her college days were in Los Angeles with the desire to become a high school teacher. However, she was destined to study Russia, Russian language, and live a life of Top-Secret clearances and undercover work. This led to senior nonprofit management positions and consulting jobs in strategic places like Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, all the former Soviet - Central Asian countries, and Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other locations. In this process of living and working abroad, she became bi-cultural - American to Russian and back – only to find that her birth country was in the process of losing its democracy and becoming a dictatorship.
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