2.35 SPIEF 2026: We can. But why?
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Episode 2.35 of The Eastern Border: "SPIEF 2026: We can. But why?"
While the Russian elite dine on 18,500-ruble elk lips at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum alongside Andrew Tate and Scott Ritter, the empire is bleeding out. Vladimir Putin accidentally admits his apocalyptic "Oreshnik" missile was intentionally tested on an empty shed. Ukrainian AI-guided drones have turned the R-280 land corridor into a 200km slaughterhouse, triggering a catastrophic fuel famine and rationing in Crimea. And to hide the smoke from their own citizens, Roskomnadzor's war on Cloudflare is accidentally bricking the Russian banking sector.
Join us from the GonzoLab as we dissect the Z-patriot meltdowns, the "Cheburnet" kill-switch, and the Kremlin's desperate pivot to a 20-year infinite war.
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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. |
| 0:12.8 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Borer. Ah, the St. Petersburg Economics Forum. Oh, international. My favorite time of the year. I barely sleep these days. It's the, what, ninth edition of me covering this nonsense and it never disappoints. |
| 0:32.1 | Spief, 2026, isn't just a conference. It's an epic of imperial humiliation that's already made Putin's previous disasters |
| 0:38.9 | look like amateur hour. |
| 0:40.8 | I have waited through 10,000 words of quotes |
| 0:43.0 | and a mountain of Zed Channel madness to unpack this |
| 0:45.1 | and, well, I haven't slept for about 50 hours |
| 0:48.2 | and I've covered first two days |
| 0:51.2 | when I'll finally get some sleep, I'll cover the rest. |
| 0:54.0 | Because, yeah, we also had a |
| 0:55.7 | stream with with the cold and crills and it was amazing I really enjoyed this conversation it's |
| 1:01.2 | going to be up there too I'm doing a lot of collaborations this month since we're during 15 |
| 1:07.4 | 15 years of making this stuff, right? |
| 1:12.9 | 15th year starts is going to be crazy. |
| 1:15.5 | So we're trying our best. |
| 1:22.6 | If this is a bit quiet, then it's because it's 3.26 a.m. at night and recording this and probably will be angry, but I can't not record this because otherwise, well, it's going to be really bad. |
| 1:29.8 | But, uh, well, we're only two days in, and we have already hit a surreal diplomatic catastrophe |
| 1:36.0 | involving the United States, Commission of Fine Arts. |
| 1:38.7 | That honestly makes past. |
| 1:40.1 | Cranged moments feel like nothing. |
| 1:42.2 | This isn't just a vanity project anymore. |
| 1:47.0 | It's a hell meets linked in fever dream. Let's dive in. |
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