The Eastern Border

Things are getting hot on the front lines again, and Russian offense looks even worse than expected. Meanwhile, hackers leak the official list of words, which Putin finds offensive.

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It's been five years since I first mentioned Wagner group on my show, and it's a very special date for them - their first actual loss. A truly evil person also has died today, and we have our first reports about the current state of Russian economy, and it's looking worse than expected.

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News about the war in Ukraine. More infighting in Russia, this time between Putin's "United Russia" party and what they call "turbopatriots", which is accompanied by a snail's pace in the front and more deaths of the mobilized. Also, some predictions by those very turbopatriots why any Russian offensive is doomed to fail.

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News about the war in Ukraine. Girkin's feud with Prigozhin, how the chief of Wagner is losing influence and how his prisoner conscripts are abusing some newfound loopholes.

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Greetigns, Comrades! This episode is a personal catharsis for me, because now and then I just want to have interesting people on my show and have a chat about them – it’s how I relax from all the war stuff. So, as many of you (just like me) play Paradox Interactive grand strategy games, especially EU4, you’ll find this episode extremely interesting, as I had a great conversation with what I consider the smartest and best EU4 streamer out there – and we talk quite a bit about serious stuff as well.

But, you know, If you have zero idea about what I’m even talking about, feel free to skip, as you’ll get very confused. Or don’t, EU4 community is great, and so is the game! Maybe you’ll find it fun.

And, of course, you can find Laith’s channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheSocialStreamers

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Don't have good news for you today, But at least some explanation so that you knew. Because obviously Kremlin shills found a new way to make my life worse. I must have hurt Wagner group and Prigozhin's ego REAL bad.

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I had to lower the audio quality on this one, because acast only allows 150 mb's of upload size, Don't get angry. Because oh boy, where do I even start. Probably with the fact that this episode is so huge that I can't even directly upload it on my homepage, because of the sheer size of it. Also, it's mega, extra, triple controversial in every possible aspect. But...hey. It is, what it is.

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News about the war. Arestovich resigns - and that's seen as a good thing by many Ukrainians, weird ads on Russian TV and some commentary by our best nemesis, Girkin.

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News about the war in Ukraine. What the Russian conquest of Soledar has revealed about the cracks in their military leadership, some more western misconceptions about Russia and one more story for the "only in Russia" segment.

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Greetings, Comrades! About a year ago (give or take a few days) the Latvian-American journalist Juris Kaža was on our show, and we talked about the possibility of war, how it would go and made some hopeful and not-so hopeful predictions. So, I asked Juris to come back and look at how it all went. Enjoy!

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