The legendary journalist asserts that Washington should seek consensus with Russia instead of starting the conflict. Photo: wire
Seymour Hersh, a renowned American journalist and investigator, urged Washington this Saturday not to provoke the conflict in Ukraine or authorize the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions that occurred last September.
During an interview with CN Live, the Pulitzer Prize winner said that by creating conditions for conflict, the US offered Russian President Vladimir Putin an argument that made the Russian people rally behind their leader.
“We lit the fuse and threw it in there,” Hersh said.
In this sense, he specifically accused Foreign Minister Antony Blinken; Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor; and to Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, whom he described as “hawks” who “have an abiding hatred of Putin, [y] It’s almost personal.”
“In fact, they opposed NATO and Europe and told them that they will try to win this war with a completely corrupt government,” added the journalist, referring to the Ukrainian authorities.
“It was suicide to think that this war can be won, that Ukraine can win this war. because there is just too much corruption. It was a very bad decision,” he said.
The Biden administration should, in his opinion Strive for peace and reach an agreement with Russia to avoid war.
“It was foolish not to immediately try to reassure the Russian government that we have no interest in making Ukraine a member of NATO. In any case, NATO didn’t want Ukraine because of its corruption,” he explained.
In this regard, Hersh recalled that Zelenski appeared in the “Panama Papers,” a series of documents that revealed various governments’ ties to “offshore” accounts.
The award-winning journalist continued his assessment of the Ukrainian government, noting that last month Kiev celebrated the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist leader glorified by the Slavic country’s current regime and its organization for the massacres of Jews and Poles was in charge of Ukraine during World War II.
Referring to his investigation uncovered last week into the US-Norwegian plot to blow up undersea gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Hersh stressed that once explosives were planted in that infrastructure, officials couldn’t stop talking about it, and Played on Joe’s warnings to Biden and Victoria Nuland that Nord Stream would not work if Russia sent troops to Ukraine.
(With information from RT in Spanish)
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