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Lev Parnas said the three hours Steve Witkoff spent with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday were mostly about gas. "Majority of the conversations had to do with Nord Stream," Parnas told Narativ Live, citing his sources. The Gulf war knocked out Qatar's gas facilities, Germany and the Baltics now lean on American and Canadian LNG, and there is not enough of it. "Now Russian gas is going to have to come into play. And they're now figuring out how to make that happen." Ukraine barely came up, he says.
The day before, Parnas says, Jared Kushner called in by video, sick, to demand that Zelensky stop hitting Russian facilities. Then Witkoff saluted Putin as a humanitarian for freeing Stephen Hubbard, 74, a retired teacher four years in a Russian prison. "I literally threw up in my mouth," Parnas said of the tape.
Freeing the teacher was Putin's plan. From the first Trump and Witkoff meetings with Putin, Parnas says, the Kremlin has released a prisoner each time, and Dmitry Medvedev has said in an interview that the state needs to replenish its prisoners to trade. The release hands Witkoff a win and hands Vance a line: are you upset we got an American back? "It's not Donald Trump coming up with this. This is Putin's plan."
Trump gave real concessions first: he paused the Russia sanctions, Russian diesel is moving into the American market, and Ukraine's Starlink went dark while missiles hit Kyiv. Putin engineered the shortage with his war, and he is now the only supplier who can fill it.
Parnas says the three-way meeting with China is set for about Nov. 13, ten days after the midterms. Each president flies in with his oligarchs, Musk among them, "literally sitting there splitting up the world." The war is China's, Russia is the proxy, and China keeps quiet to arrive at the end as peacemaker for a war it caused.
Parnas says his sources have Trump holding the Iran strike until after Nov. 3 to run out the clock, and if the country is at war, Speaker Johnson may simply not convene Congress to seat the winners. He was there in 2019 with Giuliani; the election workers they smeared sued. "At least we had guardrails. Where are the guardrails now?" Federal agents will stand in polling places, and Todd Blanche's DOJ is there to make an accusation stick.
His answer is Hungary's: make it too big to rig. Vote early, in person, take your neighbor, and bring your phone; you will need the evidence on Election Day and after.