Hatred of Putin makes US officials ‘do dumb things’ – says Seymour Hersh.

Hatred of Putin makes US officials ‘do dumb things’ – says Seymour Hersh. The journalist who broke the Nord Stream sabotage story has claimed that America’s leaders still behave like “cold warriors”. Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Sunday offered a theory for what he sees as “complete idiocy” in foreign policy from US officials. He told Chinese state television that he believes they’re so consumed by hatred of Russian President Vladimir Putin that they stumble into bad decisions. Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported last month that US President Joe Biden ordered last fall’s sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, has called the alleged plot one of Washington’s “dumbest” decisions in years. However, the blunder didn’t reflect a lack of intelligence among top officials in Biden’s administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Hersh said in an interview with CGTN. Top admi