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Hatred of Putin makes US officials ‘do dumb things’ – 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 administration officials “all have high degrees of, plenty of, intelligence,” Hersh said. “It’s just what they’re so driven by, I think, hatred of all things particularly Putin, and also communism per se. They’re so cold warriors, they’re really out of sorts. It makes them do dumb things.”

The White House dismissed Hersh’s bombshell report on the Nord Stream blast as “complete fiction.” The New York Times, where Hersh did award-winning work on the Watergate scandal and other stories as a star reporter in the 1970s, claimed earlier this month that a “pro-Ukraine group” was behind the Nord Stream attack. The story cited unidentified US officials.

Hersh told CGTN that neither the Ukrainian navy nor a non-state actor had the resources to carry out the sabotage, which involved planting C4 explosives on four concrete-encased steel pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. He said the false claim was made to distract from the fact that US Navy divers planted the remotely detonated explosives under cover of a NATO exercise in the Baltic.

“They’re trying to divert attention from the story that I wrote, which included enormous specifics,” Hersh said. “I was describing a process that began before Christmas of 2021. . . . They had a series of meetings at a secret room in the White House, that I gave clues I know the title of the room.”

The veteran journalist argued that being “antagonistic” with China and Russia is counterproductive for Washington. “They make it personal. They don’t make it professional.” He added that Biden’s foreign policy has alienated governments around the world since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began last year.

“Russia has made more friends in the Third World since this began than anybody in this administration seems to appreciate,” Hersh said. “This notion of American hegemony, if you will, just doesn’t work anymore.”

Video: More inside story of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank from another prospective worth listening 過去三年我不停建意也看到幾百家硅谷公司和數千高科技華人工程師逃離美國返回亞洲, 不少人說我瘋狂, 今天要看看誰是瘋狂! 這些逃離的人多麽幸運.

硅谷银行暴雷倒闭！美国金融业大地震！英国金融时报：一场典型的美国式烂摊子、硅谷银行破产事件对硅谷科技公司有何冲击？一个视频搞懂硅谷银行来龙去脉

Bankers have to put up a pretty face as if nothing bad will happen! Because the entire system is built on confidence. If you send a confidence-destroying message, you are damaging your own industry.

However, the signals point to a recession.

T-bills today:
1-month yield 4.737%
1-year yield 4.871%
2-year yield 4.593%
10-year yield 3.704%
30-year yield 3.712%

Notice that longer maturity bills pay less interest. This is anomalous, and is called yield curve inversion. You get lower rates for holding bonds longer. That signals the expectation that things will get worse in the future.

Every recession in US history has been prefigured by yield curve inversion. It’s an airtight correlation.
Currently, we are seeing the highest T bill inversion in 40 years.

SVB was not particularly badly invested. T-bills and mbs’s, fairly conservative positions. The hot QE–4T– followed abruptly by 7 successive rate hikes, along with the US’s foolish trade war on China, esp. in the tech industry is to blame. Also to blame is the fact that the CEO of SVB lobbied successfully to have stress tests and breakwaters removed from the banking industry–this is part of the systemic corruption of the US political system.

https://rumble.com/v2cstn0-the-collapse-of-silicon-valley-bank.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909507153605944&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

Video: This is me, I am Chinese, member of a Civilization State with 5,000 years of history, The People’s Republic of China 這就是我，中國人, 文明國家, 五千年歷史文化, 中華人民共和國.
https://rumble.com/v2csdha-this-is-me-i-am-chinese-member-of-a-civilization-state.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909464760276850&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

Video: 1000s of years of disputes between the 2 Middle East factions, Beijing’s success in the Middle East thanks to US. US style of Americans First selfishness at the expense of others has pushed Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia to China. 中東千年恩怨 兩派紛爭 北京強力前進中東要多謝美國 美國優先自私自利天天出賣朋友盟友損人利已的作風把伊朗 沙特 俄羅斯等等推向中國.
https://rumble.com/v2cs1pe-brothers-of-peace-in-the-middle-east.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909428140280512&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

Video: Depositors tried to get their money back! 40 years old US$200 billions+ Silicon Valley Bank vaporized in 18 hours, too big to fail? It is sinking with Silicon Valley with 10s of thousands of layoffs to be replaced by China Greater Bay Area where Huawei is headquartered. 40年歷吏的矽谷銀行，2000+ 億資產，18小時內蒸發. 大到不能倒真是笑話! 它正在與硅谷一起下沉，成千上萬的矽谷高科技工程師被裁員, 將被華為總部所在的中國大灣區所取代.

Bankers have to put up a pretty face as if nothing bad will happen! Because the entire system is built on confidence. If you send a confidence-destroying message, you are damaging your own industry.

However, the signals point to a recession.

T-bills today:
1-month yield 4.737%
1-year yield 4.871%
2-year yield 4.593%
10-year yield 3.704%
30-year yield 3.712%

Notice that longer maturity bills pay less interest. This is anomalous, and is called yield curve inversion. You get lower rates for holding bonds longer. That signals the expectation that things will get worse in the future.

Every recession in US history has been prefigured by yield curve inversion. It’s an airtight correlation.
Currently, we are seeing the highest T bill inversion in 40 years.

SVB was not particularly badly invested. T-bills and mbs’s, fairly conservative positions. The hot QE–4T– followed abruptly by 7 successive rate hikes, along with the US’s foolish trade war on China, esp. in the tech industry is to blame. Also to blame is the fact that the CEO of SVB lobbied successfully to have stress tests and breakwaters removed from the banking industry–this is part of the systemic corruption of the US political system.

https://rumble.com/v2crquu-svb-depositors-tried-to-get-their-money-back.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909395726950420&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

US Military Industrial Complex video: Biden you go shake the jar, US taxpayers pay and we share the profits” 美國軍工聯合體: “拜登你去搖晃罐子，美國納稅人付錢，我們分享利潤”
https://rumble.com/v2crnbc-biden-you-go-shake-the-jar.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909386626951330&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

A warmongering agent of the war machine with the military industrial complex got a Nobel Peace Prize would be an insult to China to say it is the same – shameless! 一個戰爭機器和軍工聯合體的戰爭兩手子鮮血的販子獲得了諾貝爾和平獎，如果說它是一樣的，那就是對中國的侮辱 – 無恥！

40 years old US$200 billions+ Silicon Valley Bank vaporized in 18 hours, too big to fail? It is sinking with Silicon Valley with 10s of thousands of layoffs to be replaced by China Greater Bay Area where Huawei is headquartered. 40年歷吏的矽谷銀行，2000+ 億資產，18小時內蒸發. 大到不能倒真是笑話! 它正在與硅谷一起下沉，成千上萬的矽谷高科技工程師被裁員, 將被華為總部所在的中國大灣區所取代.

Bankers have to put up a pretty face as if nothing bad will happen! Because the entire system is built on confidence. If you send a confidence-destroying message, you are damaging your own industry.

However, the signals point to a recession.

T-bills today:
1-month yield 4.737%
1-year yield 4.871%
2-year yield 4.593%
10-year yield 3.704%
30-year yield 3.712%

Notice that longer maturity bills pay less interest. This is anomalous, and is called yield curve inversion. You get lower rates for holding bonds longer. That signals the expectation that things will get worse in the future.

Every recession in US history has been prefigured by yield curve inversion. It’s an airtight correlation.
Currently, we are seeing the highest T bill inversion in 40 years.

SVB was not particularly badly invested. T-bills and mbs’s, fairly conservative positions. The hot QE–4T– followed abruptly by 7 successive rate hikes, along with the US’s foolish trade war on China, esp. in the tech industry is to blame. Also to blame is the fact that the CEO of SVB lobbied successfully to have stress tests and breakwaters removed from the banking industry–this is part of the systemic corruption of the US political system.

US Military Industrial Complex video: Biden you go shake the jar, US taxpayers pay and we share the profits” 美國軍工聯合體: “拜登你去搖晃罐子，美國納稅人付錢，我們分享利潤”
https://rumble.com/v2co0cw-biden-you-go-shake-the-jar.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909021573654502&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

Silicon Valley Bank went busted, these banks could be next 下一個關門可能是他們