Roger Waters spent decades warning that the machine grinds on, that
walls get built between people who have far more in common than they've
been told, and that comfortable numbness is exactly what those in power
count on. Now the Pink Floyd co-founder is aiming that same warning at
the war in Ukraine, arguing that Western governments and arms
manufacturers are steering the world toward catastrophe while the people
paying the actual price, on both sides of the front line, are treated
as an acceptable cost of doing business. Speaking Monday on Rick
Sanchez's The Sanchez Effect, Waters called European proposals to raise
NATO military spending to 5 percent of GDP "effing insane," and made
clear he sees this conflict the same way he has always seen power: as a
machine that runs on money and indifference, and keeps running until
ordinary people refuse to feed it any longer.
His comments arrive weeks after a separate, wide-ranging
conversation with Tucker Carlson, in which the musician questioned the
official 9/11 narrative and described a culture of enforced silence that
punished anyone who dared to ask questions....<<<Read More>>>...