War in Ukraine 300: The Spiral of Death

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

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

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The previous episode signalled the beginning of the end. Putin is now set on a path that will inevitably lead to a new time of troubles in Russia. He's now cracking down on vatniks, but we're at a point where each new crackdown increases the unreast more than it put's down. And because of the system he's built, he can't do otherwise.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast?
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0:13.3	Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border.
0:16.6	Now, next episode is going to be a breather episode, which I recorded as an interview with
0:21.2	John Michael Gaudier.
0:22.8	They actually talked about a lot of things that, you know, there are mistakes that
0:27.7	people in Ukraine make and American media makes and all this stuff.
0:32.4	A bunch of things that I really wanted to talk about, but that probably didn't fit into
0:36.3	any other episode.
0:39.3	And, yeah, to those of you listening to me through YouTube, thank you for subscribing. I hate saying like and subscribe,
0:45.8	but yeah, you know, I'm not going to go and drag myself through dealing with the YouTube
0:51.5	algorithm for now, definitely, because, well, for one, I don't want
0:57.0	to lose my nerves completely.
0:59.5	One other thing is that I'll be back on Substack, but I am in between a lot of very,
1:06.3	very difficult things right now, but in a good way.
1:09.3	Evita is strictly prohibiting me from revealing those things just yet in case if something
1:16.3	goes horribly wrong, but well, let's hope it doesn't.
1:20.1	It's just that I'm running around and, well, a bit busy these days.
1:24.4	So please forgive me for, well, the delight rate of episodes. I'm trying my best.
1:29.9	It's just that a lot of things are happening in my life as well right now. So I'm trying my best here,
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