3.04 Who Pays for the War

Three hundred and fifty-five seats. Whatever that was, it certainly wasn't the end. It was just the beginning.Within days of the vote, the bill arrived. A stealth tariff pushes the cost of missed drone strikes straight onto domestic electricity bills. Kapotnya refinery goes 100% offline. The Baltic states quietly reshape their entire nuclear posture while Brussels trades oligarch sanctions for political favors.And then, the vault door cracked: leaked chats between Mikhail Babich and Dmitry Peskov reveal the inner elite acknowledging that the mutineers were right, the President is hiding in courtyards, and the war is a catastrophic disaster they can only admit in private. Meanwhile, collaborator Oleg Tsaryov panics on camera because Ukraine's legal front is locking down hundreds of billions in frozen assets. They made a desert, and now the invoice has landed on the table.Become our patron:https://www.patreon.com/theeasternborderMerch store + another option for memberships:https://theeasternborder-shop.fourthwall.com/Follow what's going on here in the very border of Eastern Europe:https://bsky.app/profile/theeasternborder.lvDownload all episodes for free on our website; pictures accompanying certain episodes can be found there as well!http://theeasternborder.lv/Car4Ukraine Eastern Border Autumn Harvest Campaign!https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autumn-harvest-2026-the-eastern-borderSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.