Christian Baghai·3d agoTwenty Percent of War: How a Handful of Ukrainian Campaigns Decide the Front While Everyone Else…Ukraine’s front line today looks like a bad joke with a straight face: months of mud, trenches, drones, and meat‑grinder assaults that move…A response icon1A response icon1
Christian Baghai·Jul 9Who Waits, Who Pays: The Dirty Geometry of Over‑the‑Counter MarketsOver‑the‑counter markets are where the polite fairy‑tale of “one price for everyone” goes to die. Here, the central limit order book…
Christian Baghai·Jul 8The new presidential jet is a hand‑me‑down from a monarchyJust sit with that for a second. The self‑proclaimed greatest republic on Earth is flying its commander‑in‑chief around in a used jumbo…
Christian Baghai·Jul 3Your Apartment Is Your Problem Now: France’s Fifty-Year Con in Plain LanguageHere is something they will never tell you in a civics class. The French welfare state did not die. It did not get privatised in some…
Christian Baghai·Jun 30THE SHADOW WAR COMES TO THE RIVIERA, AND SOMEBODY’S WINE BUSINESS JUST EXPLODEDLet’s get something straight right off the top. On the evening of Monday, June 29, 2026, a backpack bomb went off in the marble lobby of a…A response icon1A response icon1
Christian Baghai·Jun 28The Little Spy Agency That Made the CIA Its Permanent EmbarrassmentLet’s get something straight right out of the gate. Cuba is a broke island. Eleven million people. GDP smaller than Luxembourg. No aircraft…
Christian Baghai·Jun 27Drones, Dollars, and the Death of Everything You Thought Kept You SafeLet’s talk about what happened to Moscow’s oil refinery on June 18, 2026. Not the way the news talked about it — breathlessly, vaguely…
Christian Baghai·Jun 24LOST IN TRANSLATION: HOW A FREE APP BROUGHT DOWN RUSSIA’S MOST SECRET KILL UNITThe shadow army that couldn’t figure out that Google works for the other teamA response icon1A response icon1
Christian Baghai·Jun 20Black Rain and Burning Refineries: A Story They Really Don’t Want You to Think Too Hard AboutSo Moscow got some black rain. Isn’t that something. Residents of Kapotnya and Balashikha stepped outside on the morning of June 18, 2026…A response icon1A response icon1
Christian Baghai·Jun 20THE BULLSHIT MACHINE: How America Learned to Love Its Own StupidityPART ONE: THE DEAD GUY WHO CALLED ITA response icon2A response icon2
