What the Epstein files are doing to us
Watching ourselves watch
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The Global Grey Zone
Geopolitics and international relations through a Grey Zone lens. The Grey Zone is a condition where power operates through ambiguity, indirect influence and deniability. This section looks at these dynamics across regions and events: geopolitical tensions, strategic disruptions, power shifts, influence ops that rarely appear as such. The emphasis is on patterns, signals, and silent shifts in how states and non-state actors compete, cooperate, and reposition in an ambiguous global environment.
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Calling Trump "crazy" is an analytical failure
How power, strategy, and structure are misread in unstable systems
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The rumor the White House didn't close
RUMINT (rumor intelligence) and the new face of deterrence
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While the world watched Venezuela, a European capital went dark
A Grey Zone intelligence brief on Berlin's blackout and the normalization of degradation in Europe
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Anatomy of the Venezuela Operation (Jan 3, 2026)
A Grey Zone intelligence brief on power, oil, doctrine, and the erosion of constraint in 2026.
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Mercenaries: the bastards of the system
when a system can no longer hold itself together
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What I will be watching in 2026
or reading through humans, not headlines
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How the LAW itself is part of the architecture of fraud
Modern crime is fast, distributed, and algorithmic... The law is not. And the gap between the two is now the most profitable space on Earth! The law was built to
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‘Fake it till you make it’ fails: a lesson from complexity theory
Collapse is a misunderstood word. Most people imagine fire and chaos, apocalypse! But collapse, as Tainter showed, is rarely violent. It's what happens when a system becomes too
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Thinking for generations, not elections, like the Prince Nasser of Bahrain
Reflections on identity, modernity, and the art of coherence.
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Let's talk about fascism... and anti-fascism.
We throw these words around so much that they start losing meaning... Everything is "fascist" now: a boss, a law, a politician. If everything is fascist, then nothing
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The day a new currency (euro) stole my candy
When I was a kid, buying the baguette was my favorite adventure! I'd go to the closest boulangerie with a few coins in francs. The baguette was cheap
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