{"id":58006,"date":"2021-05-23T07:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58006"},"modified":"2021-05-23T07:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T12:12:31","slug":"escobar-the-disintegrated-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58006","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/escobar-disintegrated-states-america\">Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America<\/a><\/h3>\n<footer class=\"ArticleFull_headerFooter__2Nt6Y\"><\/footer>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p><strong>Andrei Martyanov is in a class by himself.\u00a0<\/strong>A third wave\u00a0baby boomer, born in the early 1960s in Baku, in the Caucasus, then part of the former USSR, he\u2019s arguably the foremost military analyst in the Russian sphere, living and working in the US, writing in English for a global audience, and always excelling in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smoothiex12.blogspot.com\/\">Reminiscence of the Future<\/a>\u00a0blog.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had the pleasure of reviewing Martyanov\u2019s previous two books. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2018\/07\/heres-the-real-reason-the-us-must-talk-to-russia\/\">Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning<\/a>, nearly three years ago he conclusively proved, among other things, how the missile gap between the US and Russia was a \u201ctechnological abyss\u201d, and how the Khinzal was \u201ca complete game-changer geopolitically, strategically, operationally, tactically and psychologically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He extensively mapped \u201cthe final arrival of a completely new paradigm\u201d in warfare and military technology.\u00a0<\/strong>This review is included in my own Asia Times e-book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/product\/shadow-play-by-pepe-escobar\/\">Shadow play<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then came\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/12\/21\/pepe-escobar-you-say-you-want-a-russian-revolution\/\">The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs<\/a>, where he went one step beyond, explaining how this \u201crevolution\u201d, introduced at the Pentagon by the late Andrew Marshall, a.k.a. Yoda, the de facto inventor of the \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d concept, was in fact designed by Soviet military theoreticians way back in the 1970s, as MTR (Military-Technological Revolution).<\/p>\n<p>His new book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disintegration-Indicators-Coming-American-Collapse-ebook\/dp\/B0911V4QFV\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1612969439&amp;sr=1-1\">Disintegration<\/a>, completes a trilogy. And it\u2019s a stunning departure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/9781949762341_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg?itok=QGqhMCM7\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/9781949762341_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg?itok=QGqhMCM7\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/9781949762341_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg?itok=QGqhMCM7\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1089375b-fa90-4820-90ac-506271240cd8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, Martyanov, in meticulous detail, analyzes the imperial decline thematically \u2013 with\u00a0chapters\u00a0on Consumption, Geoeconomics, Energy, Losing the Arms Race, among others, composing a devastating indictment especially of toxic D.C. lobbies and the prevailing political mediocrity across the Beltway. What is laid bare for the reader is the complex interplay of forces that are driving the political, ideological, economic, cultural and military American chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escobar: The Disintegrated States Of America Andrei Martyanov is in a class by himself.\u00a0A third wave\u00a0baby boomer, born in the early 1960s in Baku, in the Caucasus, then part of the former USSR, he\u2019s arguably the foremost military analyst in the Russian sphere, living and working in the US, writing in English for a global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[28762,150,196,4076,20920,827,4318],"class_list":["post-58006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-andrei-martyanov","tag-collapse","tag-decline","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-the-asia-times","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58007,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58006\/revisions\/58007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}