15. Russia lacks brain, while the EU lacks a spine

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Ukraine, Politics, War, Cold War, History, Ussr, Russia, Documentary, News, Soviet, Society & Culture, Gonzo

4.7 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I look at yet more Z-vatnik wankering about how shit the whole situation on the front is for them and compare it to what NATO and EU does about our collective defence and what we should be doing to prevent a larger war on the continent.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast.
0:01.7	Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature.
0:05.2	It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment.
0:09.0	Just click the link in the show description to support now.
0:13.3	Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border.
0:16.9	Now, I really don't want to make the episodes like I did last time.
0:26.1	I hate doing all the drama and nonsense and everything, and I've gotten some people who either misunderstood my point or were just trawling on Discord, whatever, and they say I should have
0:33.1	like quoted Daryl Moore or something.
0:35.1	Well, number one, I don't want to.
0:36.6	Secondly, that would make an episode too long.
0:39.5	It's a complex matter, and I just wanted to give you as much fact as humanly possible.
0:44.5	And also, well, I'm trying to inform you about things, you know.
0:49.0	What's important here is that I'm sitting here in the eastern border.
0:52.9	Currently on a pile of discarded Russian field manuals
0:55.6	and a half-empty bottle of something that my neighbor gave me
0:59.1	the taste like engine coolant,
1:00.7	and I'm mentally surrounded by the true believers,
1:03.0	the Zed Patriots, the doom-criers, the Magiardomos of despair.
1:07.5	These are the voices, the only voices, mind you,
1:09.9	that grasped the exquisite, humiliating truth
1:12.9	of this whole rotten enterprise.
1:15.4	The air over there in the Moscow, fever swamp, probably is an noxious blend of state-sponsored
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