Pepe Escobar

Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows including Judge Napolitano's Judging Freedom. He is a top analyst at The AltWorld along with other notable authors such as Thierry Meyssan, Whitney Webb, Alan MacLeod, Finian Cunningham, Alastair Crooke, Andrew Korybko, Brian Berletic, Eva Bartlett, Leonid Savin, Max Abrahms, Paul Craig Roberts, Philip Giraldi, Scott Ritter and Vanessa Beeley. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has reported from London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Hong Kong and Moscow. Before 9/11 he specialized in covering from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of Globalistan (2007), Red Zone Blues (2007), Obama does Globalistan (2009), Empire of Chaos (2014), 2030, all published by Nimble Books.

NATO war in Ukraine

See also: NATO war in Ukraine and NATO war in Ukraine - Black Sea operations

In May 2022 Pepe Escobar wrote,

"We should always remember that the ultimate goal in the U.S. plan of training Ukrainians for war since 2014 was to alienate Germany from Russia – as Germany de facto controls Euroland economically. Imperial control of the oceans allows the Empire to strangle Germany at will into subservience by cutting them off from Russian energy – as the British did to Germany in WWII when Britannia ruled the waves. The Wehrmacht could not supply their mechanized army with fuel. Now, in theory, Germany and the EU will have to look to the seas – and total U.S. dependency – for their natural resources. The remote-controlled Kiev regime dominated by SBU fanatics and Azov neo-Nazis is making it even harder – by shutting off all natural gas from Russia through Ukraine into Europe, reducing the flow by more than one third. That translates as U.S.-enforced blackmail to force the EU to increase the Ukro-weaponizing against Russia. The practical consequences for Germany and the EU will be dire – in terms of shut down industries and cost of home heating and electrical power."

The Moskva was disabled and sunk on April 13, 2022, reportedly with NATO assistance.

According to an article in the Strategic Culture Foundation a source in Brussels told independent journalist Pepe Escobar,

"The Moskva was on combat duty 100-120 km away from Odessa – controlling the airspace within a radius of 250-300 km. So in fact it was ensuring the overlap of the southern half of Moldova, the space from Izmail to Odessa and part of Romania (including the port of Constanta). Its positioning could not be more strategic. Moskva was interfering with NATO's covert transfer of military aircraft (helicopters and fighter jets) from Romania to Ukraine. It was being watched 24/7. NATO air reconnaissance was totally on it. As the Moskva “killer”, NATO may have not chosen the Neptune, as spread by Ukrainian propaganda; the source points to the fifth-generation NSM PKR (Naval Strike Missile, with a range of 185 km, developed by Norway and the Americans.) He describes the NSM as “able to reach the target along a programmed route thanks to the GPS-adjusted INS, independently find the target by flying up to it at an altitude of 3-5 meters. When reaching the target, the NSM maneuvers and deploys electronic interference. A highly sensitive thermal imager is used as a homing system, which independently determines the most vulnerable places of the target ship.” As a direct consequence of hitting the Moskva, NATO managed to reopen an air corridor for the transfer of aircraft to the airfields of Chernivtsi, Transcarpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.