2.15 The Z-Files

Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the bunker. Today, we’re broadcasting live from The Eagles—just 22 kilometers from the Russian border—and stepping straight into the geopolitical Twilight Zone. Usually, we analyze the collapse of the Russian Empire using logic, economics, and military strategy. But the Russian elite has officially abandoned reality. The cognitive dissonance of losing a war to Ukraine has broken their imperial brains, and the Z-Swamp has devolved into an incoherent, Roswell-level conspiracy cult. Evita joins me to wade through the absolute darkest, most radioactive ideological rot the Russian internet has to offer. In this episode of The X-Files of the Z-Swamp: 🛸 The Ultimate Tinfoil Hat: Z-intellectuals seriously hypothesize that the Kremlin is secretly run by Ukrainian sleeper agents. 🛸 The 60km Kill Zone & "Big Meat": Russian armor gets vaporized by autonomous drones while the home front blames the confiscation of Siberian cows on shadowy corporate meat monopolies. 🛸 Schizophrenic Prayers: Hardcore nationalist Vladimir Kvachkov drops to his knees to pray to Tsar Nicholas II... and then prays to the ghost of Joseph Stalin to build the "Orthodox Russian Soviet Union." 🛸 Navigating by the Stars: The digital Iron Curtain falls as Moscow shuts down mobile internet, forcing residents to navigate the capital by looking at the North Star. 🛸 The Telegram Mutiny: Frontline troops threaten a mutiny as military police send them to penal meat assaults just for using unapproved messenger apps. 🛸 Imperial Impotence: Solovyov screams at the Central Bank, the BRICS bluff collapses, and an Archpriest tells the dying peasantry to stop going to doctors and just pray it away. The truth isn't out there. It's drowning in a puddle of its own madness right next door. Remember, happiness is mandatory. SUPPORT THE SHOW: We don't rely on massive corporate sponsors; we rely on you to keep the bunker's boiler running. 🛡️ Patreon: 👕 Merch (Fourthwall): 🌐 One-Time Donations & Crypto: Head over to and click the donate button on the right side of the page. HELP THE BOYS ON THE GROUND: The troops in the trenches need mobility to survive the drones and the artillery. Help them out directly: 🚙 Car4Ukraine: Support this show . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2.15 The Z-Files is an episode from The Eastern Border by Kristaps Andrejsons.

This episode is 48:33 long.

This episode was published on Mar 16, 2026.

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