The Eastern Border
By 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. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes (7)
The Eastern Border
2.32 Orthodox Armoured Polyethylene
Russia's war machine is not just failing on the battlefield—it's collapsing from within. The Kremlin has formally granted Gazprom and Rosatom the right to operate private armies, marking a definitive shift from state monopoly on violence to a neo-feudal dystop
The Eastern Border
2.34 The Clone Trap Is Burning!
The Eastern Border podcast’s 15th-year milestone episode delivers a blistering indictment of Russia’s systemic collapse, framing the war in Ukraine not as a military conflict but as a cascading failure of empire. The host exposes how Ukrainian drone swarms are
The Eastern Border
2.35 SPIEF 2026: We can. But why?
The Eastern Border's coverage of SPIEF 2026 exposes a Russian state in terminal collapse—not from external defeat, but from self-inflicted ideological and structural rot. What was meant to be a showcase of Russia’s global resurgence instead became a grotesque
The Eastern Border
2.37 The Simulated Empire
The Russian state has officially abandoned physical reality, legally mandating soldiers to ignore real-time combat threats in favor of fabricated reports—a policy that has led to catastrophic military failures, including the destruction of a key drone navigati
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Transnistria (and other things) with The Red Line
Transnistria is not just a frozen conflict—it’s a collapsing state on the brink of becoming a geopolitical liability for Russia, not a strategic asset. After Ukraine severed gas and electricity supplies that once kept its economy afloat, the breakaway region n
The Eastern Border
The Eastern Border x Advent of Computing
Russia has moved from theoretical internet isolation to full implementation of a state-controlled, whitelisted network—effectively cutting off access to global tools like GitHub, Python package managers, and Cloudflare. This self-inflicted digital collapse isn
The Eastern Border
2.38 Existential Fanfiction
The Russian Federation is not just losing a war—it's collapsing under the weight of its own self-inflicted economic and moral catastrophe. In this searing episode, host of *The Eastern Border* delivers a forensic dismantling of the Kremlin’s illusion of power,
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