2.19 Planet of Pink Ponies
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The digital iron curtain just fell. This week, we dive into the total communications blackout in Moscow and St. Petersburg as the Kremlin panics over satellite photos of their burning oil terminals. But the internet ban is just the beginning.
We’re tracking the terminal phase of the Russian economy: the 39% food-poverty trap, the mandatory 15% labor purges, and the terrifying "Soviet" plan to confiscate 67 trillion rubles in civilian bank accounts. Meanwhile, the military-industrial complex is a grift. We look at the scavenged reality of the trenches, where Russian troops are crowdfunding DIY rocket tubes and using electric kick-scooters for assaults, while the elite hallucinate about a thousand new passenger jets.
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| 0:12.9 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome to another episode of The Eastern Border. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm your host, Christop Sandressohn. |
| 0:18.5 | First, I'd like to mention that since the last episode, because I took a small break to do some countryside work over here and Ergl. Well, we found out that there was a bit of an outbreak of this food and now disease over there in Russia. However, that doesn't make the situation better. In fact, it makes it worse since Russia actively tried to, well, downplay the whole event, |
| 0:39.1 | and at the same time you can't let a good crisis go unsolved, so, well, this whole theory about |
| 0:44.6 | how the big meat was trying to use this to their own advantage, oh well, that still very much |
| 0:50.5 | applies. |
| 0:51.4 | They just, well, took this thing and they needed to hide the |
| 0:55.0 | foot and mouth disease and that they used it to their full advantage. Because, well, like I said, |
| 1:01.1 | you can't go, you can't let a good crisis to go unused. That's, number one. Number two, yeah, |
| 1:08.2 | I was just quite burnt out in the middle of the month so i took about a week off |
| 1:12.9 | did a bit of a weird research gathering stuff which was interesting since i i think i helped spot |
| 1:21.7 | the ship we have a whole situation there like find one of those you, you know, ship-finding things using AI. |
| 1:28.2 | We accidentally built an agenetic network on my PC and fed it a lot of data for analysis |
| 1:32.4 | and to pull out stuff from insane amounts of Excel spreadsheets and then some data popped |
| 1:37.8 | up, and it was interesting, but we'll know how that turns out later. |
| 1:41.8 | It was quite stunning. |
| 1:43.2 | We filed the report. |
| 1:44.3 | It was just amazing. |
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