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The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

A podcast about the politics and the history of the eastern Europe - including, but not limited to the current state of Russia, politics of the EU, history of the USSR and the region in general.

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  • 24 episodes
  • a few times a week
  • Avg 1 hr 1 min
  • English

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  • S2 · E54
    Wednesday · 48 min

    Dark Autumn 3

    Leaked Sberbank files confirm the collapse: an $100B deficit, 7% victory odds, drone purges, and a CIA ultimatum in Moscow, tracked from post-cyclone Latgalian mud. Happiness is mandatory.

  • S2 · E53
    August 20 · 43 min

    2.53 TFUM

    The Russian state is a hedge fund facing a terminal margin call. We calculate the TFUM: from a 21-billion-ruble daily deficit to the Wildberries crater and the US military's M7 delusion.

  • S2 · E52
    August 17 · 1 hr 16 min

    2.52 Serfdom Forever!

    The demographic hemorrhage has become so catastrophic that Moscow is now renting North Korean serfs to roll sushi in the suburbs while Putin travels around the country to see modern Potemkin's villages.

  • S2 · E51
    August 14 · 48 min

    2.51 The Pirate, the Piglet, and the Cartel

    Metallica-themed autopsy of Russia's collapse. Fake maps, shadow draft of medics, 1,400km drone voids, Ouroboros economics, & Kadyrov's 36k army preparing for the North Caucasus cartel war.

  • S2 · E50
    August 12 · 43 min

    2.50 The 800,000 Ghosts

    Fake desk jobs, gold dumps, and 127 pigeons in court. A brutal Gonzo breakdown of Russia’s $70B deficit, 800,000 trapped conscripts, and the empire's terminal collapse.

  • S2 · E48
    July 31 · 51 min

    2.48 Dark Autumn for Russia 2

    Dark Autumn 2: The Ponyatiya filtered audits of our April predictions against ISW delusions as Russia's logistics spine burns, Wildberries collapses, and the cartel state enters terminal failure.

  • S2 · E47
    July 29 · 51 min

    2.47 I am a Bobbit Worm and I do "BLOOP"

    Ukrainian drone Bobbit worms snap Russian logistics in half. Crimean blackouts, digital Gosplan price-fixing, Z-sphere panic, and our official endorsement of Count Binface for Clacton.

  • S2 · E46
    July 27 · 59 min

    2.46: National Peculiarities of Russian Freemasonry

    From SVO Masonic lodges in Rostov to pawnshops charging 77% interest on wedding rings, Kristaps Andrejsons dissects the apocalyptic delusions, burning logistics, and final collapse of the Syndicate State.

  • S2 · E45
    July 24 · 1 hr 1 min

    2.45: The Wildberries Extinction Event

    As Ukraine’s drone campaign liquidates Russia’s Amazon and frontlines run out of gas, the Kremlin’s vranyo engine collapses into AI-generated lies, friendly fire, and pure Z-patriot panic.

  • S2 · E44
    July 11 · 1 hr 13 min

    2.44 August Without an Emperor

    A cold, deadpan autopsy of the late-Putin collapse: unmasking the 8-trillion-ruble budgetary furnace, the nationwide diesel apocalypse, and the grand illusion of the Kadyrov regime.

  • S2 · E43
    July 8 · 59 min

    2.43 ...but it sometimes rhymes

    Imperial hubris mirrors 1904 as drone strikes dismantle Russia's refineries, forcing a 25k-ton daily fuel deficit, hyper-inflation debt traps, digital rationing, and total elite structural rot.

  • S2 · E42
    July 6 · 47 min

    2.42 The Pantyhose Filter

    The imperial well runs dry. We track the 69-hour fuel queues, Cossack vigilantes hunting Crimeans, military MPs getting fragged, and the terminal August 2026 convergence. The Vranyo is officially broken.

  • S2 · E40
    June 22 · 50 min

    2.40 Fraud Watch

    Fuel panic hits Moscow, small aviation collapses, and Z-patriots lose their minds on live video. An unfiltered autopsy of an empire running on empty.

  • S2 · E39
    June 19 · 1 hr 1 min

    2.39 Vranyo for Dummies

    The Russian imperial simulation hits physical reality at terminal velocity. An unfiltered Gonzo audit of empty air defense grids, $95B deficits, and paid crowds.

  • S2 · E38
    June 15 · 51 min

    2.38 Existential Fanfiction

    We have our anniversary episode, and Vladimir Solovyov writes superhero fanfiction about himself.

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