Roundtable #19: Pepe Escobar, Andrei Martyanov

Eye opening and seldom available in our deeply controlled Western media a deep 2 hour roundtable geopolitical conversation about the current real state of affairs of the world. Raw, at times distressing but valuably informative since we are now on the cusp of some of the most dramatic changes in world power. One of America's biggest disadvantages is how poorly informed we are about the perspective of peoples in the rest of the world.

Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. His column "The Roving Eye" for Asia Times regularly discusses the multi-national "competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia."

ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR, graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He is the author of five books.

Ministry of Defense of Russia
⚡️ Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (09/07/2022)

Part 1 (see Part 2)

◽️As a result of successful offensive operations in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the units of the Russian armed forces completely liberated the village of Kodema from the nationalists .

◽️During the day , in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, due to the large losses incurred in manpower and equipment, the Ukrainian troops did not carry out offensive operations . The Russian Aerospace Forces, rocket troops and artillery continued to deliver precision strikes against units and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction.

💥The high- precision strikes hit the command post of the 24th mechanized brigade in the Olenivka region of the Mykolaiv region, the manpower and military equipment of the 46th airmobile brigade in the areas of the settlements of Belogorka, Sukhoi Stavok and Andreevka of the Kherson region, as well as the 61st infantry brigade in the areas of Visunsk and Yavkino, Mykolaiv region.

💥An ammunition depot of the 406th artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Peremoga, Mykolaiv region , as a result of a strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

💥Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the Tokarevo region of the Kherson region and shot down a Su-25 of the Ukrainian air forces in the Komsomolskoye region of the Nikolaev region .

◽️Due to heavy losses, the personnel of the 57th motorized infantry brigade in the areas of the settlements of Belaya Krinitsa, Kherson region and Velikoye Artakovo, Nikolaev region , refused to perform combat missions and left their positions without permission .

◽️ In total , in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the enemy lost 4 tanks, 6 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 other armored vehicles, 2 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 150 military personnel per day.

◽️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.

💥A high-precision air-based weapon in the Krivoy Rog area of the Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed a fuel storage facility for military equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine with a volume of more than 5.5 thousand tons.

💥A ground-based high-precision weapon inflicted a defeat on the point of temporary deployment of the unit of the nationalist formation “Kraken” in the Kharkov region. Up to 30 nationalists and 10 vehicles were destroyed.

💥Concentrated fire strikes on the combat positions of the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the settlements of Prishib, Yavorskoye and Andreevka of the Kharkov region destroyed up to 40 and wounded more than 80 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

◽️Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.

💥During the day , six command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Chuguev, Dergachi, Prishib of the Kharkiv region, Artyomovsk, Soledar, Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as 47 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 143 districts.

◽️In the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic , workshops for the production of rockets for the Ukrainian Alder multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed.

💥Three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were also destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Liman in the Kharkiv region, Ocheretino in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Gulyai Pole in the Zaporozhye region, as well as a US-made counter-battery radar in the area of the settlement of Zelenodolsk in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

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Ministry of Defense of Russia
⚡️ Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (September 7, 2022)

Part 2 (see Part 1)

💥During the day, air defense systems shot down 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Kamenka, Kapitolovka, Izyum, Pimonovka, Bolshie Prohody of the Kharkiv region, Kirillovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lyubimovka of the Zaporozhye region and Holaya Pristan of the Kherson region.

◽️In addition, 20 shells of the HIMARS and Olkha multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted in the areas of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the settlements of Korsunka, Novaya Kakhovka, Golay Pristan in the Kherson region, as well as the Tochka-U ballistic missile in the area of the settlement of Valuyki Luganskaya People’s Republic.

📊 In total , since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 292 aircraft, 152 helicopters, 1,897 unmanned aerial vehicles, 373 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,855 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 825 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,369 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 5360 units of special military vehicles.

⚠️ Despite the presence of representatives of the IAEA, the Kyiv regime continued provocations at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to create a threat of a man-made disaster.

◽️During the day, three artillery shelling of the city of Energodar was recorded. In total, 16 shells were fired from the areas of the settlements of Ilyinka and Marganets, located on the opposite bank of the Kakhovka reservoir. As a result of falling into a transformer substation, the city was left without electricity.

◽️The enemy’s firepower was suppressed by the return fire of Russian artillery.

◽️The radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP is normal.

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Pepe Escobar on FR? I never thought I’d see the day. Strange times we’re living in. He’s been the token leftie on AT for ages (think Juan Williams on Fox News, only Pepe is smarter, more fun, and even farther left, as in bordering on full commie).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I used to enjoy his columns sometimes on AT and fondly thought of him as my fave whackaloon. While I disagreed with his lefty stance and usually with his conclusions, he’s always had a way of digging up facts from here and there and putting them together in an interesting way, and his facts checked out.

His writing style can be sometimes quite witty and highly entertaining. And while he may be a commie, he’s the most likeable and honest one I’ve come across.

He’s quite enamored of pipelines and his “Pipelinistan” theories, and if I wanted to know about the pipeline aspect of some conflict somewhere, Pepe was my go-to guy. Unlike Pepe, I don’t think fossil fuels and their transport are ever the sole or even main reason for US involvement in various conflicts. It’s always a constellation of factors and forces, of which pipelines may be only one.

He was one of the earliest to focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and although he seemed all in favor of it and its likelihood of eating away at American hegemony, the information itself was valuable. As an anti-colonialist and commie of the Latin American variety, I wonder whether he still thinks Chinese colonialism is so nice, given the ugly form of it practiced by China in South America and across the Global South. He disappeared from AT for a long while and I didn’t realize he was back, so it’s been some years since I read one of his columns.

He’s good at pointing out our follies abroad, sometimes quite humorously. And while I might agree wholeheartedly that some of our actions were counterproductive and foolhardy (Libya, for example), I don’t think our actions abroad are always driven by evil intent on our part, as Pepe seems to often think. Some of our leaders have been misguided, for sure.

Anyway, Pepe is worth reading if you self-administer the proper doses of salt. He’s fun, witty, entertaining and smart. But he’s still a commie of the Latin American persuasion. I would not be at all surprised to learn there are some Che T-shirts in his closet.

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