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The Eastern Border

Assassinations and Stoic Optimism

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Gonzo, War, Documentary, Ukraine, Russia, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

As I heard the news about the attempted Trump assassination, Alex from History Impossible reached out to me, and we had a conversation to make sense of it all. We had spoken before about the rise in such attempts, so the idea was to maybe calm everyone (including ourselves) down a bit. And, hey, even our common favorite Russian academic Dugin had a lot to say about this..

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And I feel like that is frequently something that you and I find ourselves saying, especially

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when politics by assassination starts to rear its ugly head.

2:17.2

Oh, yeah.

2:21.0

And we're going to be talking about, well, the most important assassination now, but just remember that also Reyn Metal boss was, well, survived an assassination attempt just yesterday.

2:30.3

So, assassinations everywhere.

2:33.4

And, you know, being right.

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