2.29 Overdosing on Vranyo

About this episode

The episode explores the collapse of the Russian state's connection to reality amidst military and economic crises.

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to The Eastern Border. Today, we are taking a long, hard look into the rotting, schizophrenic core of the Russian imperial delusion. The Kremlin generals are promising Vladimir Putin the entire Donbas by autumn, but the guys in the trenches are looking up at a sky entirely owned by Ukrainian drone swarms. In this episode, we audit the absolute collapse of the Russian state's connection to physical reality. We dive into the "Drone Wall" paralyzing Russian logistics, the dystopian slaughter of the Kuzbass dairy cows by the "Sovereign Feudalism" elite, and the frantic mothers of the 138th Brigade revealing that the Rostov military morgues are physically overflowing. But the real fatal blow? The 12-trillion ruble black hole in the Russian budget. As real inflation crosses 20% and the public withdraws 600 billion rubles in a massive bank run, the Kremlin has completely run out of cash. Their response? A terminal hallucination where the FSB blames their own drug epidemic on Kyiv, and the censorship board literally bans 10th-grade physics textbooks because the "Gay-Lussac" gas law sounds too much like Western propaganda. The empire is overdosing on…

People in this episode

Host: Kristaps Andrejsons

Topics covered

• Russian imperial delusion
• Ukrainian drone swarms
• Russian logistics collapse
• Kremlin budget crisis
• censorship in Russia
• drug epidemic
• military casualties

Keywords

• Russian state
• Donbas
• Ukrainian drones
• Kremlin
• inflation
• bank run
• censorship
• drug epidemic
• military morgues
• vranyo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kremlin, FSB

Books & works: Gay-Lussac

Places: Donbas, Ukrainian, Kuzbass, Rostov

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