Russia has apparently requested Roger Waters to talk to the UN Security Council on Wednesday at a gathering Moscow requested that’s ostensibly in regards to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been brazenly anti-Ukraine, blaming NATO aggression for Russia’s invasion of the neighboring nation. He’s additionally written an open letter to the primary woman of Ukraine, encouraging her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, to sue for peace. Likewise, in a Rolling Stone interview just a few months again, Waters stated that he’s on “a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government.”
“Let’s see what he will say. He has a position and you will hear it tomorrow,” Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia informed Reuters, including: “Perhaps he will sing to us, too.”
“Russian diplomacy used to be serious. What next? Mr. Bean?” stated an nameless UN Security Council diplomat.
This comes on the heels of the author Polly Samson calling Waters “antisemitic to your rotten core” and “a Putin apologist”: “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.”
Samson is married to Waters’ ex-bandmate David Gilmour, who quote-tweeted Samson, including: “Every word demonstrably true.”