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The Eastern Border

War in Ukraine: Episode 273

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the...ermm...Orange Border, I suppose. I continue to work here, as the Russian economy is still in the mud - and vatniks are dreading any pause in the war, as they feel that their whole army will collapse. Oh, also at the end, Finns did a funny thing again. 

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0:12.9

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Netherlands, I suppose.

0:18.2

Yeah, if you listen to my previous episode, I am now away from Lafia for a couple of

0:23.7

months. And, yeah, it seems that it was a good decision after all the burnings and all the other

0:30.7

random stuff happening there. So, I'm not feeling that bad. There's going to be a part two,

0:36.1

where I continue my conversation with Alex and

0:38.8

Jack, as Zach left, after, you know, an hour and a half. It was a pretty long one. But there's a part

0:44.0

two where we continue discussing this stuff, but, well, there is news happening. And, well, if I

0:50.0

don't make an episode about them, then, yeah, this one's going to be a bit long then.

0:55.2

So, I'm sorry for the sound issues, this is my Ukrainian setup.

0:59.5

So, please don't be too alarmed that I sound a bit differently than I do normally.

1:04.1

It's because this is my travel microphone on my laptop and everything, and I am in the Netherlands

1:09.1

doing this.

1:09.7

So for a while, the sound is going to be a bit stranger than you're used to.

1:15.6

Meanwhile, there's a lot of things that have happened down, and I've had, again, cut some parts out,

1:20.3

because I just didn't have the time to work on this whole stuff since, well, being a refugee is not an easy thing to do, so I apologize beforehand about everything.

1:33.9

But first of all, I'd like to talk about how Putin and Trump discussed in absentia the fate of the so-called

1:42.0

encircled Ukrainian military in the Kursk region.

1:45.4

Trump asked the Russian president to, quote, show generous generosity.

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