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Discussing US foreign policy on the Bad Faith podcast on YouTube, the Pink Floyd co-founder stated that the conflict in Ukraine was "the best thing to happen to them in the last 10 years," because it was "really good for business."
"Part of their business is making money from the war through making weapons and selling them to the people and taking the profits from it," Waters explained, adding that this money never goes to ordinary people. "It's not you or me, not ordinary people who invest in the war industry. It's people with tons of cash, and they get very well paid when there's war."
Another benefit of the war for the political establishment, according to Waters, is that it allows it to convince people who struggle to make ends meet and end up homeless that their woes are the fault of the Russians and Putin, who is compared to Hitler and accused of being responsible for "destroying everyone's lives."
Roger says he has now been banned from performing in Poland for openly criticizing the West's military meddling and calling for peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Previously, the musician had written letters personally addressed to presidents Vladimir Putin, Zelensky and Joe Biden, calling for diplomatic talks to end the conflict, stating it is "the worst possible thing that can be happening," due to the potential of an all-out nuclear war.
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"Teacher.....leave those kids alone"
Although “Time” is my all time favorite song I like that album most.
There is more money to be made in Wars than in Peace Time hence the need and desire for "Endless Wars".
If the UN was a representative of peace as it advocates to be there would be no war taking place in Ukraine.
Some would believe he is bitting the hand that feeds.
Others have been killed for less.
He obviously doesn't fear being sent to the other side. Or if he does then he doesn't care enough to keep his mouth shut.
What a brave man or some would say fool.
Either way we know who's side he plays for.
Service to others more than service to self I would say.
Relatives said there was a strain of Asperger's in the family already so it may have just been a matter of time until Syd's wiring pulled loose. The stress of stardom and hellucinagens (sic) may have been the catalysts for the inevitable. Some say he became schizophrenic and studies show that if one is predisposed to the condition, LSD can hasten it.
Either Gilmour or Waters stated that upon continued daily consumption of LSD, one day Syd fully turned into someone else in just 24 hours.
In (S)hine on (Y)ou crazy (D)iamond (written for and about Syd) Gilmour wrote "now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky" and it's heartbreaking to learn that as time wore on, initially nobody recognized that the person milling around a studio session was a bloated Syd himself with shaven head and eyebrows.
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Pink Floyd was named after Blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Not because a flying saucer told Syd to thus name the band, as he is said to have reported.