After causing a ruckus with Ukraine open letter, Roger Waters cancels some upcoming shows.
Earlier this month, Waters, who regularly leads audiences in the refrain “we don’t need no education,” fired off anafter she appeared in a BBC interview and urged continued support for her country. Waters wrote to condemn “the West continuing to supply arms to the Kiev government’s armies,” suggesting that those who do so “have already declared an interest in the war going on for as long as possible.
He then added a list of action items she should pass on to her husband and pinned the war's blame on President. “The extreme nationalists,” he wrote, “have set your country on the path to this disastrous war.” “Sadly, your old man," he condescendingly continued, "agreed to those totalitarian, anti-democratic dismissals of the will of the Ukrainian people, and the forces of extreme nationalism that had lurked, malevolent, in the shadows, have, since then, ruled the Ukraine.”
This is far from Waters’s first time at the “saying something controversial” rodeo. For years, his criticism of Israel have walked the very fine line of antisemitism (indeed, his recent two-night stop in New York City drew
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