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The Trump White House quietly dropped a new “National Security Strategy of the United States of America – November 2025” on the official site.
No press conference. No prime-time speech. No honest debate.
Just a 30+ page blueprint that tells you everything you need to know about where Trump wants to take America – and who he’s really working for.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
I’ve read it. I’ve talked to my sources. I know how these people think because I used to be in the room with them.
What I’m about to walk you through is not going to be on cable news tonight.
What This Document Really Says (Not the Spin)
On the surface, this “National Security Strategy” is wrapped in patriotic language and buzzwords like “America First,” “peace through strength,” and “protecting sovereignty.”
But if you read past the slogans, here’s what it really lays out:
Trump declares the era of “mass migration” over and says border policy is the primary element of national security. That’s code for using fear and division at home as a political weapon.
He brags that his foreign policy is “non-interventionist” – not because he hates war, but because he wants to pick and choose where he intervenes based on deals, leverage, and personal loyalty, not values.
There’s a full section about “burden-shifting” and “ending the days of the U.S. propping up the world order” – which sounds good until you realize what it means in practice:
Walk away from commitments, tell allies “you’re on your own,” and create vacuums Russia and other authoritarian regimes can fill.
Europe is scolded for being weak and “losing its identity,” while the document openly says the U.S. wants to re-establish “strategic stability” with Russia and negotiate a quick end to the war in Ukraine to stabilize European economies. Translation:
Get Ukraine off the agenda, restore business as usual with Moscow, and move on.
Trump’s team literally brands him “The President of Peace” and lists a fantasy checklist of peace deals he supposedly delivered around the world – including claiming he “ended the war in Gaza” and stitched up conflicts from the Balkans to Africa. That’s not strategy; that’s propaganda.
On paper, it looks like a “serious policy document.”
In reality, it’s a roadmap for a far-right world order: strongmen doing deals while democracies are told to sit down, shut up, and “adapt.”
Where Ukraine Fits in: “Negotiated Peace” on Putin’s Terms
Let’s focus on what this means for Ukraine, because that’s where the mask really slips.
Buried in the Europe section, Trump’s strategy says the U.S. goal is to:
Re-establish “strategic stability” with Russia
Negotiate an “expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine”
Stabilize European economies and move on to “post-hostilities reconstruction” of Ukraine as a “viable state”
It sounds technical. It’s not.
That’s code for a “take it or leave it” deal:
Lock in Russian control over occupied Ukrainian territory.
Force Kyiv into a frozen conflict or sham peace where Russia keeps the leverage.
Let European elites and Trump’s oligarch friends go back to doing business as usual – energy, minerals, investments, and sanctions relief.
Now line that up with what my sources have been telling you for months:
Quiet moves to ease sanctions on Russian energy interests, including players like Lukoil, right after high-level talks.
Back-channel conversations about a 28-point “peace” plan that carves up Ukraine like a real estate project – treating human lives as line items.
Pressure on European governments behind the scenes: “You want stability? Take the deal and stop talking about full Ukrainian victory.”
Putin bombs cities, kidnaps children, smashes infrastructure.
Trump releases a “strategy” that says, in polite language: Let’s hurry up and formalize this so we can all get back to making money.
That’s the game.
“Don’t Listen to What They Say. Watch What They Do.”
In this document, Trump calls himself the “President of Peace” and wraps everything in “non-interventionism” and “respect for sovereignty.”
At the very same time:
Russian missiles and drones are still slamming into Ukrainian cities.
Energy and industrial targets are being deliberately hit to freeze and starve civilians.
Kidnapped kids are still missing, families destroyed, lives shattered.
This is why I keep telling you:
Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do.
They say: “We’re ending mass migration.”
They do: fuel wars and instability that force more people to flee.
They say: “We’re defending sovereignty.”
They do: reward Putin for invading a sovereign country and rewrite borders by force.
They say: “We’re shifting burdens to our allies.”
They do: signal to Europe that America is stepping back – and to Putin that the door is open.
And remember: while this glossy strategy is being quietly posted, sanctions are being chipped away and “peace proposals” are being drafted that look a lot like surrender for Ukraine and a reset button for Moscow.
Why This Is a National Security Threat to Us, Not Just Ukraine
This isn’t just about Ukraine’s survival – though that alone would be enough.
This “strategy” tells you exactly where Trump wants to drag the United States:
A world where far-right regimes and oligarchs set the rules, and democracies are told to accept “realities” created by tanks and missiles.
A NATO that’s weakened, divided, and eventually hollowed out because “the era of America propping up the world order is over.”
A Europe pushed toward a dirty compromise with Russia while U.S. leadership is replaced by transactional deals, tariffs, and energy leverage.
When America’s official doctrine says “mass migration is over,” “burden shifting,” and “expeditious peace in Ukraine” all in one breath, what they’re really telling you is this:
We are restructuring the world around interests, not values – and we’re fine with letting Putin keep his spoils.
That’s not national security.
That’s authoritarian alignment dressed up as strategy.
While Trump’s team is writing strategy papers that treat Ukraine like a bargaining chip, Oleksandr is on the ground in Ukraine, where none of these people will ever set foot without a motorcade and cameras.
With your help, Alex is:
Delivering generators, heaters, food, medicine, and basic supplies to families whose cities have been smashed by Russian strikes.
Bringing aid to areas where infrastructure is gone, where winter is deadly, and where people rely on community, not governments, to survive.
Showing that our movement will not abandon Ukraine – even if governments and “strategists” are already gaming out how to move on.
While they write about “strategic stability with Russia,” we are fighting for basic human stability – heat, light, food, safety – for people under attack.
That’s the real moral line in this moment.
This Community Is Our Counter-Strategy
I don’t have oligarchs.
I don’t have billionaires.
I don’t have corporate sponsors or PACs buying ads to spin this for me.
I have you.
I was once part of the world that wrote these kinds of documents in secret and then gaslit the public with talking points. I helped build MAGA and the very networks now pushing this far-right, pro-Kremlin worldview.
Now, I’m doing everything I can to tear it down, piece by piece, in real time – bringing you what my sources are telling me before the press conferences, before the sanitized summaries, before the spin.
But I can only keep doing that with your support.
Here’s what I need from you today:
1. Become a paid subscriber on Substack
If you’re reading this for free, I’m grateful you’re here. But to keep this work going – the late-night calls, document dumps, source checks, live breakdowns – I need more of you to step up as paid subscribers.
That’s what keeps this movement independent and fearless.
2. Support Alex’s mission in Ukraine
If you can, contribute to Alex’s GoFundMe so he can keep delivering aid where it’s needed most. Every dollar turns into: https://gofund.me/775b19a21
A heater in a freezing apartment
A generator for a shelter
Food and medicine for families under bombardment
3. Help keep this platform alive and growing
If you’re able to go the extra mile, you can support this work directly:
PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/LEVPARNAS
Zelle: thereallevparnas@gmail.com
This helps me keep building the infrastructure – shows, reporting, investigations, and on-the-ground support – that you know you’re not getting from mainstream media.
4. Share this letter
Forward it. Re-stack it. Text it to a friend who still thinks this is “just another policy paper.”
People need to understand: this document is the blueprint for a world where Putin wins, Ukraine is forced to swallow it, and America shrugs.
We are not going to shrug.
5. Volunteer
If you’re ready to get more involved – helping with outreach, organizing, amplifying, or just being part of the backbone of this movement – email our volunteer hotline:
📬 levpttp@proton.me
Tell us where you are, what you can help with, and we’ll plug you in.
We Don’t Let Them Write the Future in Secret
This new National Security Strategy was meant to slide under the radar – another PDF nobody reads, that quietly changes everything.
We’re not going to let that happen.
We are going to:
Call it what it is – a surrender document dressed up as “peace.”
Stand with Ukraine while the bombs are still falling, not just when it’s convenient.
Expose the far-right project to normalize Putin and rewrite the world order in their image.
Build a community that refuses to look away.
This is not just a show.
This is not just a newsletter.
This is a movement.
If you believe we cannot abandon Ukraine, that we cannot hand the future to a far-right axis of strongmen and oligarchs, then stand with us:
Subscribe.
Become a paid subscriber.
Support Alex’s mission.
Share this letter.
Volunteer and get involved.
Because while they quietly publish strategy documents and lift sanctions, we’re here to do what they fear most:
Tell the truth.
Name names.
And refuse to let them write history in the dark.
-Lev Parnas
P.S. And if you haven’t yet, pick up your copy of Shadow Diplomacy at https://levremembers.com—the book Trump never wanted you to see. It lays out the blueprint for exactly this moment.
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Friends,
I hope your Thanksgiving Day was peaceful.
Today I’d like to raise a less peaceful question that many of you are asking me: As we enter the darkness of the Trump regime, where can we find trusted sources of information? What and whom can we count on to give us the truth?
I will give you the sources I rely on in a moment, but first let me explain why reliable and independent sources of news are threatened by a growing alliance of oligarchs and authoritarians.
The mainstream media doesn’t use the term “oligarchy” to describe the billionaires who are using their wealth to monopolize information and turn it into propaganda — but it’s the most accurate term, because that’s exactly what’s happening: from Elon Musk’s X to Jeff Bezos’s The Washington Post to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News to Vladimir Putin’s worldwide disinformation campaign to Donald Trump’s continuing stream of lies on Truth Social and X.
Even legacy mainstream media — which mostly answer to corporate or billionaire ownership — refrained during the 2024 campaign from reporting how incoherent and bizarre Trump was becoming, normalizing and “sanewashing” his increasingly wild utterances even as it reported every minor slip by Joe Biden.
The New York Times headlined its coverage of the September 2024 presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris — in which Trump bellowed conspiracy theories about stolen elections and Haitian immigrants eating pet cats and dogs — as: “Harris and Trump bet on their own sharply contrasting views of America.”
Trump has called the free press “scum” and the “enemy within.” He has threatened to revoke the licenses of television networks and jail journalists who don’t reveal their anonymous sources. Last month, Trump sued CBS, based on conspiratorial claims that “60 Minutes” made “edits” favorable to Harris for the final cut of its interview with her.
Come January 20, Trump and his billionaire toadies — including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, and Linda McMahon — will control the executive branch of the United States government, and Trump’s MAGA Republicans will be in charge of both chambers of Congress.
Members of the Supreme Court (some of whom, like Clarence Thomas, have been beneficiaries of billionaire gifts) have already signaled their willingness to consolidate even more power in Trump’s hands, immunize him from criminal liability for what he does, and further open the floodgates of big money into American politics.
All of this is sending a message from the United States that liberalism’s core tenets, including the rule of law and freedom of the press, are up for grabs.
Elsewhere around the world, alliances of economic elites and authoritarians similarly threaten public access to the truth, without which democracy cannot thrive.
It’s a vicious cycle: Citizens have grown cynical about democracy because decision-making has become dominated by economic elites, and that cynicism has ushered in authoritarians who are even more solicitous of such elites.
Trump and his lapdogs lionize Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s Fidesz party, which transformed a once-vibrant democracy into a one-party state, muzzling the media and rewarding the wealthy.
Trump’s success is already encouraging Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party in France; Alternative in Germany, or AfD; Italy’s far-right Giorgia Meloni; and radical right-wing parties in the Netherlands and Austria.
Trump’s triumph will surely embolden Russia’s Vladimir Putin — the world’s most dangerous authoritarian oligarch — not only in Ukraine and potentially eastern Europe but also in his worldwide campaign of disinformation to undermine democracies.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk — the world’s richest person, self-described “First Buddy” of Trump, and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts — has been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022.
Evidence is mounting that Russia and other foreign agents used Musk’s X platform to disrupt the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign in favor of Trump. Musk did little to stop them.
During the campaign, Musk himself reposted to his 200 million followers a faked version of Harris’s first campaign video with an altered voice track sounding like the vice president and saying she “does not know the first thing about running the country” and is the “ultimate diversity hire.” Musk tagged the video “amazing.” It received hundreds of millions of views.
According to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Musk posted at least 50 false election claims on X, which garnered a total of at least 1.2 billion views. None had a “community note” from X’s supposed fact-checking system.
Murdoch, another oligarchic champion of authoritarianism, has turned his Fox News, Wall Street Journal, and New York Post into ever-louder outlets of right-wing propaganda, further amplifying Trump’s lies.
Artificial intelligence may make it even easier for oligarchs and demagogues to manipulate the public. Trump has nominated right-wing FCC commissioner and Musk bro Brendan Carr to chair the agency. Don’t expect him to do anything about weaponized disinformation. Carr ranted publicly about NBC featuring Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live” during the election.
Bezos barred The Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris. Evidently, he didn’t want to raise Trump’s ire because Bezos’s other businesses depend on government contracts. The mere possibility of a Trump presidency forced what had been one of the most courageous newspapers in the U.S. to censor itself. Marty Baron, former editor of the Post, called the move “cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.”
The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, blocked his newspaper’s planned endorsement of Harris as well, prompting the head of the paper’s editorial board to resign. Mariel Garza said she was “not OK with us being silent,” adding: “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up.”
Honest people standing up is precisely what resisting authoritarianism and protecting democracy require — monitoring those in power, acting as watchdogs against abuses of power, challenging those abuses, and sounding the alarm about wrongdoing and wrongful policies.
But how to “stand up” without reliable sources of the truth?
So, as we enter the darkness of the Trump regime, please make sure you and others you know have access to accurate information about what’s occurring.
Here are the sources I currently rely on for the truth: The Guardian, Democracy Now, Business Insider, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, The Economic Policy Institute, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, ProPublica, Labor Notes, The Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson, and, of course, this Substack.
Please add in the comments any additional sources you rely on.
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