Pepe Escobar has quite a following in the alternative media. SLL has posted many of his articles. However, nobody’s infallible. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
There are reasons to suspect that Pepe’s Asian source might either be Iranian or under Iranian influence, with the goal behind his fake news – both his viral tweet and all that came before it – being to discredit Russia’s balancing faction in order to aid the pro-BRI one with a view towards influencing its foreign policy formulation.
The Tweet That Everyone’s Talking About
Top Alt-Media influencer Pepe Escobar went viral over the weekend for tweeting that “a very high level intel source” from Asia told him that Russia shot down a nuclear-armed Israeli F-35 over Jordan that was planning to carry out an EMP attack against Iran. After experiencing considerable pushback, he then clarified that “I am just a messenger”, adding in yet another tweet that “I now have TWO separate, definitive confirmations from TWO ultra high level intel sources from TWO separate Asian nations.”
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter applied his decades-long expertise to debunk this sensational claim in two tweets that expose the technical holes in this scandalous story. X user “Korobochka” also published an insightful thread that discredited Pepe’s claims from a complementary angle. Nevertheless, Sharmine Narwani from The Cradle insisted under one of Ritter’s threads that Russia really did intercept the Israeli nuclear-armed F-35, and she also hinted that Pepe shared the source’s identity with her.
The “Pepe Phenomenon”
The reason why some didn’t instinctively dismiss his tweets is because of his closeness to influential Russians and their state institutions, which lends credence in their mind to anything that he says. He met Lavrov on two occasions in the past two years in what’s shaping up to be an annual tradition. Pepe also moderated a session at the Multipolarity Forum that was hosted by the International Russophile Movement in late February. Afterwards, he then set off to Sochi to address the World Youth Forum.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
Maybe it was done to discredit him?
Best to take that I am just the messenger, look it up for yourself, approach.
I’ll relay stuff from Scripps, local PBS as family watches it while making Trump memes just to inflame their TDS.
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