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Good morning, comrade, or evening, or whatever time of day it is right now when you're listening to this through the static of your

headphones and uh you know while the world outside slowly on spools from its axis

if my voice sounds a bit more gravel yet again it's because congratulations every time

something happens i sound like this and something happened again. Of course I haven't

slept in 36 hours once again because last night the geopolitical abstract

well decided to remind me that it's no longer an abstract and yet again for

the 10th time in exactly a month I guess guess, yeah, exactly a month, it's been 30 days, became a physical screaming reality just outside the window.

Welcome to the eastern border. Of course, I'm Christop Sandreson's recording from Pilda in Latgala, 22 kilometers from the Russian border.

And right now, the shadow war bled across the fence once again.

Because, obviously, it's not like anyone's going to let me sleep now and then.

Once again, I was reminded that for the past two years, the elite think tanks in Washington,

Brussels and London have been, you know, playing their nice little cute war games on their shiny digital monitors.

They draw big scary red arrows, representing mechanized armored divisions rolling through the Swaliki gap.

They read lengthy dry political briefs about the threat of conventional high-intensity breakthrough into the Baltic States.

But, you know, I think I kind of know the actual kinetic reality of military warfare in the closest era,

and I know how it looks like from the ground.

In June 2026, you apparently don't look at a Pentagon slide deck.

You look up at the gray morning sky over Neutriand Parish, Red Between Rezek and Carsev. Because, oh boy.

Around 9.40, the calm of Falagal was shattered for the first time since the Raitmere escalated.

By the way.

NATO fighter jets actually did something over here.

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