18. The only thing more miserable than Igor Girkin is Russia’s economic situation.
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The news episode that I wanted to release before the glorious civil war article plopped up. We have a lot of Igor Girkin to catch up to – but the main story ties with the ep. 17 marvelously. Because at this point, mainstream Russian economists, the same who called Lipsits a doomsayer, now have gone past fear and openly admit that an economic collapse is not just inevitable. It’s already happening.
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| 0:13.0 | The region of Eastern Europe is fascinating to so many people around the world, but especially |
| 0:19.4 | in the United States, the picture of this region is distorted |
| 0:23.8 | by media portrayals of corruption and gangsterism and endless poverty, as though the 1990s |
| 0:31.4 | simply never left. The reality is that this is a region which over the last three decades has strived to shake off those images. |
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| 1:04.0 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border. Now, this episode was supposed to be |
| 1:08.1 | released and recorded before the yesterday's one, but I had to do that one quite in a hurry, because, oh boy, that was an important one. If you've missed that one, please go and check that one out, though. But today, today we're focusing on, well, two things. You've got Girkin and Economy. Haven't figured out the title of this, this mess while I'm still recording this one. |
| 1:28.4 | However, however, let me tell your comrades, the air in the telegram echo chamber, well now, |
| 1:33.7 | that's thick enough to choke a goat. It smells a fear, cheap instant coffee, the Indian kind, |
| 1:39.1 | if you're in Lafayette, you know what I mean, and the cloying in this capable stench of failure. |
| 1:44.6 | They call this special multiplication that out here in the digital trenches, where my personal war is fought, |
| 1:50.4 | it looks more like a slow-motion catastrophe orchestrated by half-wits and professional sloths. |
| 1:55.3 | And this, this is where Igor Girkin, yes, our favorite retired colonel and prophet of doom, |
| 2:01.2 | drops a truth bomb so filthy it should require hazmat gear. |
| 2:04.9 | He looks at leadership and sees, well, like we all do, |
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