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I’m also worried about the increasing amount of heavy weapons streaming into the conflict. But this time there is one difinite agressor who is constantly rising the stakes, and we do have to support the victim of the agression in order to help them defend themselves.
In a better world talks would be possible and I would happily support any call to throw away the guns.
Btw: I do not support the view that Europa or NATO have made a mistake in expanding to the east. It was the eastern states that sought shelter and economic welfare by joining the west, and the Baltic states would probably already have been wiped off the map – again – hadn’t they joined NATO and EU as soon as possible.
One big mistake was the US announcement of stationing missiles in Poland and Romania under George W. Bush, alledgedly in defence against Iranian missiles. This was a clear breach of earlier agreements and a provocation for an increasingly nationalist Russia. But what do you expect from GWB?
Apart from that the sad development was probably unavoidable, since Putin increasingly took over the imperialist ideology from Russian nationalists (descendants of former Soviet exiles ironically) and started a very clever operation of infiltrating and obstructing the West – directing large sums of money to rightwing or extreme left parties, buying governments or former top officials like Gerhard Schröder, poisitioning old KGB cronies in alledgedly beneficial Gas Operations like North Stream 1 & 2 and destabilizing the Ukraine governments since the Orange Revolution. Any talk of provoking Western expansion just repeats Putin’s narrative.
Ukraine was guaranteed existence and security by Russia and NATO alike for giving up its nuclear potential in 1994, so it is our fucking duty to stand by that and by Ukraine. On the other hand we have a brutal, corrupt, ruthless Psychotzar in the Kremlin who started this completely unnecessary war. If you doubt any of that, just ask punknotyet how he feels about the matter. This is not about truth or not truth, this is clearly about supporting a nation under attack with civilians being murdered every day by Russian missiles.
It is true – you can’t make peace with guns – but without guns you’re dead – or slaves – sometimes. Hopefully we soon come to a situation where both sides realize they have nothing to gain by continuing, but until that is achieved there is no other way but to support Ukraine with all we have.It is not just soldiers these days. In Ukraine civilians die every day – as they did in Syria before. If one side is set on destroying you at any cost it is hard to talk. Sometimes you even need more guns to defend yourself. Sad but true.
Anyway – MP should have enough music on the shelf to deliver another great album in 2023. Haven’t they been recording again this autumn? Anyway, there’s still the material they gave Reine to work with. And hey – I’ll even cherish an acoustic tour with the duo (and possibly Reine) in 2023, if all strings break…
Sad news indeed. Tomas has become three MP drummers in one person and has surely given the band a kick when they needed it after Kenneth left. “The Tower” was a really energetic new start for them.
I can well imagine Tomas’ diverse extracurricular interests were severly cropped by MP commitments and therefore expect there might have been tensions arising. Nevertheless – he’s been the best MP drummer so far.
Probably Bent’s recruiting approach via Trondheim music college has its limitiations – you’ll certainly find the best there, ready to go – but the young guns understandably might want to experiment and to try out different routes and bands.
But who knows? Maybe they return from India with one or two tabla players and record “Escalator No.2”? I’m confident the mothership will go on – just hoping it doesn’t take them too long to turn up south of Oslo again.Those boots! The white ones Bent wears, of course. Somebody must have unearthed them from a north London rent house, where Lemmy used to live around 1986-89. Bent virtually steps into Lem’s footprints.
That doesn’t mean Old Whisker didn’t die in his boots, though! In his later age he swapped the cool white ones for custom made black military boots (US civil war era) – but the white ones stand for the coolest Motorhead era – and Lem at the top of his powers. Right on, Bent!Thanks Bernie! You made my day again…
I found out I prefer watching the vids on my tv, lying on the sofa and fully concentrating on what’s going on.
Sound through the odd hifi amp, image on the screen.
Prefereably late in the evening. Best music programme I find in my TV these days ;-)This is very good news indeed. Been waiting for that RI for years. At the time Phanerothyme came out I was still in my CD period – then I still bought my Motorpsycho discs in record shops, where the vinyl version certainly was not available. Tussler next?
Bernie is back! Thanks once again…
Mountain is great – and great to look at. Especially the little dance the three guitar players enjoy from minute 2.00 onwards. They shoul’ve donned their ethnic “sacre du printemps” costumes ;-)
