Roger Waters Live 2023 + LP PLEASE NOTE: We strongly disagree with Waters’ expressed views on the Ukrainian conflict and Russia’s illegal and unprovoked attack on the country and its people. While we acknowledge and promote Waters’ musical talent and anti-war themes, we totally abhor his stance on Russia and Putin’s actions together with his view on the arms aid given to Ukraine by the world’s sympathetic nations. This is an extract from his UN speech which we find intolerable and wrong: By Michelle Nichols Russia called the Security Council meeting on Wednesday to discuss the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and asked Waters to brief. Waters argued against the Western supply of weapons to Kyiv in a letter that he published on his website in September. The deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Mills, acknowledged Waters’ “impressive credentials as a recording artist,” but said his qualifications to speak on arms control or European security issues were “less evident.” While Waters condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as illegal, he also said it “was not unprovoked” and he also condemned “the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms.” He did not give specifics. “The only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine,” Waters said Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya invoked Pink Floyd’s hit song “Another Brick in the Wall,” telling the Security Council: “How sad for his former fans to see him accepting the role of just a brick in the wall - the wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda.”
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