22. Fable of the Bridge
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Russian army is not the mighty empire we’re told to fear. It is a rusted, bureaucratic black hole where reality is sacrificed for paperwork, and human life is cheaper than a 700-kilogram winch.
I call it "The Fable of the Bridge." Because, in the end, it’s a story where the soldiers lose, the commanders lie, and the only things that work are the Ukrainian drones.
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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, listeners and fellow traveler through the apocalypse. Welcome back to the Eastern Border. And, well, hi to you who are watching this on YouTube. |
| 0:22.2 | Sorry about the webcam with the dead pixel on it. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah, that's a bit of a problem for this webcam. |
| 0:27.3 | I bought a new one, but that one is just extremely zoomed in. |
| 0:30.6 | For those you're listening to this show, don't worry. |
| 0:32.6 | You're not missing out on anything. |
| 0:33.7 | I decided to continue my experiment with just trying to sort of give my face to what |
| 0:40.1 | I'm talking about on YouTube, but otherwise you're getting the same deal just as out and else. |
| 0:44.2 | So I think that's fair. I am trying to at least get on to new projects or something. |
| 0:50.1 | You might miss the cat in the background as those people on the YouTube. |
| 0:54.6 | Well, they can probably see over there. |
| 0:56.6 | That's my kitty box, and Lulu might just plop in there somewhere. |
| 1:01.6 | And those are my unfinished bookshelves. |
| 1:06.2 | Well, I'm sitting here in Pilda, 22 kilometers from the Russian border, and giving you something special tonight, because I've enjoyed lately something truly interesting. |
| 1:18.7 | Because you see, tonight we're waiting through the muck. |
| 1:22.1 | I've been doom scrolling through the Z channels again, so you don't have to. |
| 1:25.7 | Well, not like you would do that, but something that a lot of people are missing out, really. |
| 1:31.7 | And let me tell you, the picture of their painting |
| 1:33.7 | isn't the shiny polished fascism of the |
| 1:37.4 | Russian state TV. No, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:39.7 | It's not the Reds Corpare parade with the Armata tank that |
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