Roger Waters, famous British musician and co-founder of Pink Floyd, has been invited by Russia to speak at a meeting of the UN Security Council to deal with the supply of weapons to kyiv.
On more than one occasion, whoever was bassist and vocalist for the iconic rock bandhas criticized the action of NATO and the United States in Ukraine, assuring that the shipment of heavy weapons to the country It contributes to the aggravation of the war.
His criticisms have aroused the interest of the Kremlin, which usually gives voice to those journalists or experts from Western countries who oppose the positions of their governments with respect to the war, and Russia offers Waters the opportunity to participate in the meeting. of the Security Council of the UN in which, among other things, the latest announcements of tank deliveries will be discussed.
The proposal comes shortly after the controversy that has plagued the artist in recent days. And it is that Polly Samson, wife of David Gilmour and lyricist on several Pink Floyd albums, accused him through Twiiter of anti-Semitism and making propaganda for the Russian president.
“Sadly, you’re anti-semitic to your rotten core.. Also an apologist for Putin and a liar, thief, hypocrite, tax evader, misogynist, sick with envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense & rdquor ;, wrote Samson.
Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
—pollysamson (@PollySamson) February 6, 2023
Far from trying to calm things down, David Gilmour, also a former member of the band, supported his wife’s words, adding to said tweet that “the veracity of each of those words is demonstrable.”
Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN
—David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023
After the attacks, the composer has not been slow to announce that he will study possible legal measures against Samson after these words, since, he says, they are “inflammatory and tremendously inaccurate” comments & rdquor; which, moreover, “completely refutes & rdquor ;.
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Already in August 2022, Waters spoke on the US television network, CNN, about the involvement of the allied countries and their responsibility in the conflict. “Joe Biden is feeding the fire in the Ukraine. That is a great crime. Why doesn’t the United States of America encourage Zelensky to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrible, horrible war? This already started in 2008, and it is basically NATO action and reaction pushing to the Russian border, which they promised they would not do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from all of Eastern Europe& rdquor ;, argued the musician .
These words and other controversial opinions have made him a character highly criticized by the Ukrainians and their allies, even to the point that his concerts have been canceled in Poland due to the intolerance of his speech.