War in Ukraine: Episode 247

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

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

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Maxim Kalashnikov writes about what are the wins and losses of USA in this war - and talks about the systemic issues of the Russian army. I look at those issues in more depth than usual, because it seems to me that we're near a breaking point. Not because of each individual issue, but because they're finally beginning to add up.

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0:42.8	Oh yes.
0:47.3	Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.
0:51.1	Now, I wanted to focus today's episode on the problems that Russian soldiers are
0:56.2	facing and what are the unintended consequences of all these meat assaults and Russian
1:02.7	government not really caring about the Russian soldiers. But yeah, this morning, just before I
1:10.0	was recording this, basically, just as I woke up and started working on this episode, Maxim Kalashnikov.
1:18.9	Yes, yes, that futureologist, Igor Gertkin's buddy, posted something that I thought, hey, 80% of my listeners are from United States of America, and you have an election
1:29.1	soon. And I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of arguments about how supporting Ukraine
1:35.8	is somehow not beneficial to the United States. Well, Maxim Kalashnikov, our beloved and
1:43.1	hatred, hated Zed futurologist, made a very interesting
1:49.4	post, quite long one with which I think we should start, and then we can move on to the main
1:55.4	subject of this episode, but this is just going to be great. You see, Maxim Klausnikov writes
2:00.2	about what the Americans have won in this war already
2:05.2	and what they have lost.
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