2.1 Z(ed) is Dead
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
In this episode of The Eastern Border, we dive into the surreal start of 2026. While the world watches the US conduct a "Blitzkrieg" operation in Venezuela to snatch Nicolas Maduro, the Kremlin is strangely silent. Why? Because the "Jungle Law" Vladimir Putin prayed for has finally arrived—and he’s realizing he isn’t the biggest predator in the forest.
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| 0:13.1 | Greetings, comrades. |
| 0:14.4 | It's Monday, January 5th, 2026. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to the premiere of the Renewed Veri Gonzo, the Eastern Borders second season. |
| 0:24.2 | I was re-watching Pulp Fiction last night, trying to distract myself from the news, |
| 0:29.2 | and, well, bleeding, well, and painful fingers that are still there if you watched our previous |
| 0:35.8 | episode or listen to it. |
| 0:38.3 | And it hit me. |
| 0:39.6 | We're currently watching the geopolitical version of the Royale with Cheese conversation. |
| 0:44.9 | You know the one, Vincent Vega explaining little differences. |
| 0:48.3 | In Europe, we have the rules-based international order. |
| 0:51.6 | That's the quarter-pounder. |
| 0:53.1 | But in the jungle? |
| 0:55.2 | In the jungle, they don't call it a quarter-pounder. They call it might-makes-right. Vladimir Putin spent 20 |
| 1:01.6 | years telling the world he didn't want the quarter-pounder. He wanted the royale with cheese. |
| 1:06.6 | He wanted a multipolar world where the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must. |
| 1:12.1 | And guess what? He got it! |
| 1:15.1 | And now? Now he's choking on it. |
| 1:19.2 | I started my morning yesterday watching Maxim Katz. |
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