Posted on 08/08/2022 11:42:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Roger Waters has clarified some of the messaging presented on his current This Is Not a Drill Tour, which includes an image of President Joe Biden with the words "War Criminal" and "just getting started ..." projected to the audience.
He addressed the image during an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish, saying that President Biden is "fueling the fire in Ukraine."
He added: "That is a huge crime. Why won't the United States of America encourage Zelenskyy, the President [of Ukraine] to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that's killing — we don't know how many Ukrainians and Russians.
"This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border – which they promised they wouldn’t do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. from the whole of Eastern Europe," he added. Waters later offered a comparison: "Try to figure out what the United States would do if the Chinese were putting nuclear armed missiles into Mexico and Canada."
Waters, who has also previously criticized former President Donald Trump, begins his current concerts with a typescript message displayed to the audience: "If you’re one of those 'I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics' people, you might do well to xxxx off to the bar right now."
He says the message "sets a few things straight" at the top of the show, for both longtime fans and newer ones.
"I’ve only got one message: 'Two strangers passing in the street / By chance two passing glances meet / And I am you and what I see is me,'" he said to CNN, referencing lyrics from Pink Floyd's "Echoes." "That is my message and that was on Meddle, which was in 1970 – and basically my message hasn’t changed: I recognize your humanity but I recognize all the Russians and the Chinese and the Ukrainians and the Yemenis and the Palestinians."
As Waters elaborated, the text is not meant to deter people from attending his shows, but rather to encourage a sense of camaraderie amongst his audience members.
"There is such a great feeling of communication in that room between me and the audience," he said, "and between us combined, with all of our brothers and sisters all over the rest of the world, irrespective of who they are, where they live, their ethnicity, their religion, their nationality, or anything else — because if This Is Not a Drill has a message, it is that we have to communicate one with the other."
Who?
I agree with Roger, Biden wants to fight to the last Ukrainan for profit.
He ruined pink floyd with his stale, boring politics. Get over it Roger.
The globalist left wants to eliminate 95% of the world’s population. They want to make Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc look like amateurs. Why does Roger Waters not address that?
Biden is siding with Russia, he just can’t admit it. Obama/Biden were on Putin’s side all along.
Because he agrees with it?
An angry man. He’s been angry since Syd left the band, and even though he hired Gilmour to replace him, he’s resented Gilmour all along for having to replace Syd.
Syd went crazy having to be around Roger?
Who cares what this guy thinks one way or the other
He has no credentialing education that recommends him to opine in such matters
He is a celeb abusing the use of a stage.
“.....fueling the fire in Ukraine.”
Indeed, we, the US, are....in very dubious ways to boot, all the while claiming and asserting that we, the US, don’t want a direct confrontation with Russia. Yeah......
Take it for what it is worth.
‘Pentagon-hired contractors ‘everywhere on battlefield’ in Ukraine – media’
https://thepressunited.com/updates/pentagon-hired-contractors-everywhere-on-battlefield-in-ukraine-media/
We have sent the blackhole world’s money laundromat in money , aid, and equipment nearly as much as the entire 2021 Russian military budget, and yet, Ukraine is still losing. The US/EU/ZelensjyyIdiot house of cards about to implode. Bet.
And Gilmour was the one who took care of Syd, made sure he got his money, and was taken care of. Dave’s a good guy, probably just as Socialist as Roger, though.
Agreed, I refuse to patronize anything he did or does.
Weren’t we fueling the fires when our leaders encouraged Putin to invade?
Here we have the media defending Biden against this silly rock star - compare and contrast that with the medias reporting on Bush or even Trump (gonna get us into WW3) when Biden is actually doing it.
But then I remember how code pink disappeared as soon as Bush was out of office and the Iraq war dragged on.
Roger being a stopped clock.
I think this guy has some confusion about WHO started this war...
Yes, but you won’t get or find that admission from anything resembling US/EU/Western propaganda media.
Saw the names, I listen to Roger just as much as I listen to Noam Chomsky.
And Gilmour was the one who took care of Syd, made sure he got his money, and was taken care of. Dave’s a good guy, probably just as Socialist as Roger, though.
He did, I think he assisted and produced a record or two for him. I think David knew him from before too. David is a left wing guy, but more of a libertarian I think.
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