2.17 Relegation, Russian Style
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The front office is panicking, the franchise player just demanded a trade, and the owner is literally burning down the stadium to pay the referees.
Welcome to the ultimate geopolitical relegation zone. This week, we use the lens of a rigged sports bracket to break down the cascading failures inside the Russian Federation. We're tracking everything from Ilya Remeslo’s spectacular defection and the staggering demographic wipeout reported by the Free Russia Foundation, to the Federal Tax Service liquidating domestic shoe brands just to fund the meat grinder. Plus, we look at the physical collapse of the Russian internet, and how a digital blackout is leaving frontline trenches completely severed from reality.
Make sure to stay until the very end to hear Evita’s incredibly accurate reading of some genuinely pathetic Z-doomer poetry. (Premium supporters on Patreon, Substack, and Fourthwall will get this poem as a separate, downloadable bonus track!)
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Source Material:
- Michael Naki (Analysis of the Telegram attack and tactical comms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRl2qXBeHP4
- Michael Naki & Vladimir Milov (Budget Deficit and Financial Trap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktXr3VqM2l0
- Alexander Stefanov (The Latynina Debate): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tz7_3fFm0U
- Maxim Katz (The "Cannibal" Latynina Analysis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0lDmsXm2k
- Maxim Katz on Ilya Remeslo: https://youtu.be/gFp7uQk_bFA?si=CN3MTUqd19NgFewd
- RealLifeLore (Middle East Geopolitical Conflict): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fst58LTo9U8
- Ramy Zaycman (Financial analysis of the internet outages): Basically the last few videos found on his channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ramyzaycman
- Free Russia Foundation – Demographic Autopsy of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Milov): https://4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/03/Demographic-Autopsy-of-the-Russian-Federation.pdf
- Maxim Kalashnikov (Roy TV) – "On the Telegram block and the future after SVO":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x24YcCQijNw (This is the February 19th dispatch where he breaks down the "crisis of statehood.")
- Kalashnikov on Ilya Remeslo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFp_RVjk17M
- Silicon Curtain (Analysis of Kalashnikov's "Statehood Crisis"):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-dYoDdBHdo
- The "Новости СВЕРХДЕРЖАВЫ" channel doing a post-mortem on Remeslo's mutiny: https://youtu.be/7_fXUBgECcw?is=JykWpu80t_1PMt1c
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:13.2 | Good evening, comrades, and welcome back again to the eastern border. I told you in 214 that March is going to be heavy with stuff because a lot of things are |
| 0:21.6 | happening right now, so here you go. |
| 0:24.0 | But before we dive into the heavy, heavy stuff today, a quick administrative note. |
| 0:28.3 | We hear you on the sources. |
| 0:29.9 | Starting with this episode, you'll find a primary list in the show description. |
| 0:33.2 | It'll have links to the major YouTube videos, channels, Western Think Thang stuff, |
| 0:36.9 | and the primary documents |
| 0:38.4 | I use to build these episodes. Now, I'm not going to dump all Z-Telegram links in there because, |
| 0:42.7 | frankly, well, there's a lot of them, and I make a PDF, a file out of all the telegram staff, |
| 0:49.0 | which then I feed to AI for translation work, so giving you a bunch of tiny little links would be |
| 0:54.0 | silly, but, you know, |
| 0:56.3 | that's also a radioactive hazard and nobody needs that much unregulated brain route in their |
| 1:00.1 | browser history. |
| 1:01.0 | But the major stuff will be there for you, the receipts will be here for you to verify, |
| 1:05.3 | because transparency is a weapon and I'm going to use it. |
| 1:08.4 | Also, make sure you stick around until the very end of the episode. |
| 1:11.3 | See, the Russian internet is currently collapsing and the Z-bloggers are writing, yet again, |
| 1:15.6 | terrible melodramatic, doomer poetry about it. And my lovely wife, Heavitt, stepped up to the microphone |
| 1:20.5 | to record a reading of one particularly pathetic poem by a guy named Yuri Goroshko, |
| 1:25.4 | whose calls her an estavar. Although when she recorded that she |
| 1:28.4 | made some intentional mistakes, but that's all fine. Now, to those of you listening to this |
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