Antony Blinken plays Rockin’ in the Free World in Kyiv bar
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, performed Neil Young's 1989 Rockin' in the Free World at a bar in Kyiv during a visit on Wednesday night.
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He was called on stage by the frontman of Ukrainian rock group 19.99, before he played guitar. Young's song was written in 1989 after he was denied an opportunity to perform in the Soviet Union and was released as the Berlin Wall came down. The choice of song underscored Blinken's support for Ukraine as Russia steps up attacks on the city of Kharkiv
Before the performance, in a message to Ukrainians Blinken said: 'So much of the world is with you. And they're fighting, not just for a free Ukraine, but for the free world. And the free world is with you too. So maybe we can try something.' Blinken is known for combining 'music with diplomacy', and launched an initiative in 2021 through the state department to realise that goal
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Tell that to the people of Iraq.
I'm pretty sure they'll give him a standing ovation.😂😂😂
@@thomasschlogl475Very oversimplified view.
@@thomasschlogl475"But what about...?" 🙄😜
Shortly after this Blinken hypocritically proposed sanctions on the ICC for starting a war crimes legal process against another rogue state.
We live in a south park episode..
Exactly, mate ! We are living in South Park since 4 years
Twilight zone
We live in Truman show, if you notice resemblance
@@evgeniam685 Biden is already dusting off the 2020 narratives, college debt, marijuana, women's healthcare. This is kind of what annoys me because I fully understand why people are not happy with the scotus and the red states running with scissors, but what have democrats done, they need to go on the offensive so doctors can do their jobs, only we get stories about Uncle Boosie.
You live privileged lives in more ways than one.
A little unfortunate... Neil Young actually wrote Rockin' in the Free World as a criticism of our actions.
ruZZias actions are as bad as "ours", if not worse, so...
@@PedroFerreira-ze5ypyou definitely ignore your own history.
@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp2 wongs don't make a white
@@diegobaca9453 Yeah really. If there’s been a main character who’s the villain on the whole planet in the last 80 years, it ain’t Russia. Just ask anyone who’s a citizen in the Global Majority.
@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp
Would be interested to hear your explanation on the 81 coups since 1945 by the three letter ORG that operates for US interests but not inside the US or the role the US is playing in keeping the Sudan war well stocked with weaponry. Both sides of it that is..
Tone deaf in every sense of the word
Playing "Rockin' In The Free World" in Ukraine is the height of irony.
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R.I.P. GONZALO LIRA
Theyree just mocking people at this point
or stupidity
Should have played "Fortunate Son" instead.
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I don't have a sharp enough knife to cut through that irony.
or "LBJ told the nation" with lyrics "Joe Biden told the nation have no fear of escalation.."
@@perussaatajawe don't negotiate with terrorists
Should have played Raining blood
It’s a dystopian world. Scary one to be very honest.
Cry for me
That was the biggest applause Blinken has received in many many months.
Nero allegedly fiddled while Rome burned. History repeats itself.
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Well said.
Lol! I just posted the same comment… history repeats itself all right!
Historian here, this is a myth. But blinken certainly brought it to life.
Reminds me of emperor Nero playing harp in front of a burning Rome. Grotesque ..
This story is a myth unfortunately
@@jesipohl6717 According to many it isnt.
A millennium from now, many may claim the secretary of state doing this was a myth.😂
Ironically, Neil Young wrote this song in 1989 to lampoon the Bush administration, so the joke's on clueless as ever Blinken
*george hw bush. dubya was potus between 2001-2009.
@nl5828 George Bush the father.
@@amandapeluso4217 Bush administration + 1989 = Bush the father no two ways about it
@diment0857 both war criminals.
Get this man some help
What's next Blinken-182? 😆
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Touché!
Got me 😂
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Blinken-182's top hits:
Dumpweed feat. Zelensky
What's my age again?
All the small things we do for Ukraine
Which episode of South Park is this?
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The next upcoming.
YES
Disgusting, people die on frontline , Zelensky laughing, Blinken singing !
Rockin’ in the Free World is a song criticizing U.S. involvement in too many wars. Blinken doesn't have a clue.
like how self-described “patriots” love playing “born in the usa” without realizing it is heavily critical of the vietnam war and the treatment of veterans by the country that they served!
@@nl5828 Reagan didn't care. He used it, it worked, he moved on.
Blinken -182 is an American rock band formed in Kiev ukraine on 15 th may 2024 that consists of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
аахахах да)
😂😂😂
Wait til he talks about aliens; 👀👀👀
There's one more young soldier
who will die for this fool.
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
🤘 F yea!
Putin's fault.
Just like the band on the Titanic.
This is the maybe the most grotesquely on-the-nose thing I've ever seen.
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yep, it's a taunt
He obviously has no sense of irony singing those lyrics
Reading the comments gives me hope for western culture.
West hegemony is over
The free world 😂
Indeed. Tell that to Novak Djokovic and Julian Assange.
a war criminal playing a music of death.
Rockin instead of Rockets. Ms Putin applauds.
why is he a war criminal exatcly?
@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp funding and supporting Genocide
@@youmna4045he also recently proposed sanctions against icc officials for prosecuting genocide and war crimes. Making him a meta-war-criminal.
WAR CRIMINAL
Reminds of George Bush going of to play golf after answering questions on Iraq 😂😂
He obviously has never read the lyrics….
Blinkin didn't mention the stocks he own in the military industrial complex
Should have played, "Bye bye miss American pie".
No, he should play and sing I Will Survive of Gloria Gaynor
.. and he plays a $5000 guitar of course... wow....
small change when your M.I.C. laundromat is global
I wonder if anyone actually showed him the lyrics to that song. You cant make this stuff up...
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Obviously not
These people only see what they want to see. Not what is really there.
Big shot knows all about the frontlines from a Kiev bar
This evokes that IRS Burger (restaurant) episode of _The Simpsons._
Is this real or is this a new episode for The Simpsons or South Park? I am shocked!😳
Ukraines Got Talent 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
'This reminds me of a quote by lord Byron; 'Tis strange but true, for truth is often strange, stranger than fiction.'
Just happens to find a left-handed guitar on stage with a band with right-handed guitarists..... Blatant PR stunt.
His playing sucks.
Has he actually read the lyrics? The irony is on the same level as David Cameron saying Eton Rifles is one of his favourite songs
My thoughts exactly- the Neil Young lyrics are hardly a shining recommendation of life in the US (“free world”).
My first reaction was the same then again I can't think of a song that encapsulates American nuances as much as this song.
these elites like Blinken are openly laughing in people's faces, he knows exactly what he is doing
The song criticizes Bush Sr's America, and Blinken actively campaigned against him in 1988...not exactly as ironic as you might think.
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It is time to start discussing about stopping the wars in Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar and other conflict zones.
Rock-'n'-roll war criminal.
Will he have his guitar at the Hague?
He can play Jailhouse Rock for all the other war criminals.
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Funny
@@douglasexum87 Putin will be delivered to the hague. For sure!
😂Hope his jailmates like it.
Charles Manson also played guitar and wrote some songs
This invokes similar feelings as that "Imagine" video during covid
Imagine there's no Biden, it's easy if you try.
If this song wasn't dead & meaningless before, it is now. Everything Blinken touches turns to garbage
While his vassal's Ukraine burns, American Nero plays his guitar!
Ya know, if you're so upset about it Russia could just leave Ukraine
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@@dwebtron8526 Typical post by someone ignorant of history and the facts. Keep coping in your yuuessay fantasies.
@@oot007 U talk about alternative history or something? you can go to the fields of Ukraine to fight and die for the story that your owner Putin is telling you. But you won't
@@dwebtron8526 That's not how years of escalation, provocation and disrerpect of Russian security concerns work. No use dumbing down complex situations to silly oneliners.
I want to know what Neil young think about that
Given why he wrote the song I think he'd be down for this
Kneel Young sold out a few years back. Besides the Farm thing, doubtful we'll ever hear anything feisty and true from him again.
What would have been really hilarious and appropriate would have been Iron Maiden 2 Minutes to Midnight🤣🤣🤣
Maybe "Peace Sells But Who's Buying" or "One"
He can't plat that one either.
What tf just happened?
Should've brought a violin, just saying...
💯🎯 The modern day Nero...
Ready for Blinken to be permanent bar entertainment and out of our state department.
Hey Anthony do you have any Gaza dates set yet?
07 ct
@@ivankoval3540 Typical post by someone ignorant of history and the facts. Keep coping in your yuuessay fantasies.
Blinken could play:
Firework
You Need To Calm Down
Freedom '90
@@oot007typical spammed reply but your not at all obvious
@@IMSiegfried You're still coping in your yuuessay fantasies
It is very significant what song the envoy from the USA sang for the Ukrainians, Rockin’ in the Free World
"I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away
and she's gone to get a hit"
This is the kind of “free world” destined for Ukraine.
Russia went through this stage in the 90s, when it was friends with the Americans.
We don't need such a free world.
Очень показательно, какую песню спел посланец из США для украинцев, "Зажигай в свободном мире"
"Я вижу женщину в ночи
С ребёнком на руках
Под уличным светом старого фонаря
Рядом с мусорными баком.
Она выбрасывает этого ребёнка
И уходит, чтобы кольнуться"
Вот такой вот "свободный мир" уготован Украине.
Россия проходила этот этап в 90ые, когда дружила с американцами.
Такой свободный мир нам не нужен.
Playing and having a few drinks with the elites while young poor ukrainians die in the war thorn country that is little by little turned into afghnaistan by washington and EU
When is the next Ukrainian election….
I think that's Biden's campaign promise:
Every street full of junkies, and a baby in every garbage can.
Newsom spent millions keeping alcoholics boozed.
Да, слава богу страшные 90 прошли. Сейчас живёте на параше и убиваете соседи, но слава богу 90 прошли...
Oh dear.
Okay, as a musician, He is playing a left-handed guitar which are not very common at all. Also it looks like a Gibson 335 which is not a cheap guitar at all and it looks brand new. So if he went out there spontaneously and just showed up The chances of that guitar being there for him to play would be about maybe 3% if you're lucky! So did keep bring his own personal guitar and was planning this whole thing to begin with? If so, I didn't know he was going to Ukraine for an open jam! Purely a stunt and putting a feather in his own cap. These are the facts coming from a musician
I go with the 3% estimate.
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As a musician and a mathematician! I applaud your understanding and detective abilities. This comment is the truth bomb! Fyi; your the musician that is also the mathematician, not me.
it’s Epiphone
60 Billion with B goes a long way. Obviously much was spent defending against not having Blinkie's favorite guitar on hand for him.
Just bizarre
Ruzzkiland troll?
@@andreaso.raschendorfer8141 Keep coping in your yuuessay fantasies
😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣 OMG this had to top all of the other comedy gold from this lot wow I thought I had seen all that comes from the funny farm but just wow 👆😂🤣😂🤣
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@@Frixworks “ bots” can’t see comedy no can they write it …
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@@Frixworks Keep coping in your yuuessay fantasies.
@@oot007 That sentence was completely non-sensical, and you know it.
I can't believe this is real. Did they enlist all the young males in the bar later?
For what?
@@NoWindNoSunNoPower the war? He just said the war is about the free world
What makes you think they aren't already serving?
@@Joshpox🤡 no more brain cells left 🤤
He looks convincing human
Nah, that's just lizard mask tech
It's just unbelievable the kind of people whose ruling the world!
Guitarists?
@@sevent1116 war criminals
STAY THERE
and in Gaza there is no electricity, no pizza restaurants, no clubs where you can play the guitar.....
Why would anyone want to go to a club in Gaza? There would be no chicks. Oh……. Right ……. Just make sure it’s basement, not top floor.
There are chicks, 9 year olds in big black curtains @@NoWindNoSunNoPower
@@NoWindNoSunNoPower October 7 that’s what happened to Gaza. What did they expect?
He’s scheduled to play the same song in Tel-aviv next week.
Nice strawman.
Bill Clinton with his sax would've been a perfect addition to this band.
This is HILARIOUS 😂
Apparently he played a great rock n roll version of Macklemore's ' Hind's Hall'.
This man is a war criminal please put him on trial.
wait what?! what crime did he commit? care to explain?
@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp apparently he made Russians attack Ukraine lol
Look, look!
The war criminals are on tour!
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Hm...I've only seen this same comment from 5 different accounts thus far. What a coincidence!
@@IMSiegfried You're still coping in your yuuessay fantasies
@@oot007 beep boop
@@cr41gieboy The nayfoebots keep coping
J’ignorais qu’il avait un concert à Kiev ! Quelqu’un pourrait m’expliquer ont fête quoi ? Peut-être la fête des mort , chez nous c’est le 11 novembre.
Blinken's as clueless about the *meaning* of the song as he is about the damage he's doing to the world, the US and the US' standing in the world with his embrace of military spending and Israeli genocide. This song is a bitter anthem *mocking* the American Empire & its callous disregard for its own people.
Imagine losing all your family in the war and this man starts signing, and your just staring at him
Shouldn't these young guys be fighting instead of playing music in a bar?
Кто-то же должен народ развлекать за американские доллары
No, the law is nobody under the age of 25 has to fight in the war in order to preserve the younger generation.
During WWIl Churchill said, "Keep the pubs open or what are we fighting for?" Life goes on during war. In fact I would argue that it's even more important that this be so, especially during times of war. How else do you think you keep your spirits up?
@@IMSiegfried I was talking about moral duty.
@IMSiegfried Yep the Leader of the Free World Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky leads with wisdom and purpose.
With the 10% cut in the pocket, time to party.
I definitely trust a man who has such great taste in guitars...
I would have thought he would be using a US made Gibson.
If that is a criteria to whom you trust, then I am sorry for you ...
I love guitars but don't trust that cat one bit ! 😂
Did they get Assange on backing vocals ?
Nah, not free enough.
@@scififan698 🎯💯
At least Doug Feith should be happy, because he clearly no longer deserves his old title.
Blinken's brain is blinking😂😂😂😂
blinken is celebrating (imagining) Ukraine's victory
Porque não toca sua guitarra no FRONT ? Sr. Antony guitar ...😄😄😄
Does anyone know where the full performance is?
Now watch this drive.
If you want a band name that aptly sums up Biden, Blinken, Harris, Sullivan, etc's indepth understanding of geopolitical affairs, then you'd probably be best opting for Simple Minds (as there sadly doesn't seem to be a band with the even more apt name of 'Evil Minds', available).
Play the funky music white boy
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Pity they didn't read the lyrics before hand🙈
He should have played "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".
Can he play in Gaza as well 😅😅😅
he could, but the zio-fascists would scream “anti-semitism” and cancel his political career! so he won’t.
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why would he?
@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp once he has a beachside place in New Gaza
There’s half a million Russians gathered on Ukraine’s eastern border. Sing Feewuld… 🙄
The bear has been poked, but Blinken sleeps sound at night. He knows his plane will take him out before the bear's arrival.
come in don't be afraid come out don't cry.
@@Intel-i7-9700k2 plus years and "the bear" has managed to gain approx., 14 miles if that. They'll hit Karkeiv in 2080 at this rate. 🤣
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Need at *least* a 3 to 1 ratio in order to offend and if you don't think that Ukraine doesn't have more than 15000 soldiers in Karkeiv you know nothing about this war.
@@IMSiegfried Ukraine lost a enormous amount of soldiers and armaments, territory is only one part of the situation
Lavrov needs to do a Shaman cover to counter this
Scary blinkn.
Duet, next?
The hypocrisy at its highest levels,
He talks about humanity and empathy while funding and supporting one of the world's most tragic genocides in Gaza
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yeah that surely will make soldiers om the frontline feel safer..
Masters of War (Dylan) might have been more appropriate.
For Putinist Russia
All I can say is Ha Ha Ha ha Ha Ha Ha he must of been tripping man 😎
Babies in garbage cans?
That's Blinken's America!
A comidian and a singer make a great dual.
Rocking those gas sales, arent we Mr. Blinken?
At least he has humour
Сколько символизма, ну собственно как всегда...
Your local Rock'n War dealer....
Ms Putin - War dealer
@@ivankoval3540 Oh, really ? You see him on that stage ?
@@ivankoval3540Ukraine is Next to Russia and was Russias Territory. Washington DC to Kiev is 10 hours !!
@@IANJCAMBELcali DC is next to Mexico city by this logic too. Maybe we should invade?
@@IANJCAMBELcali RusZZlandia is Next to the China Hord and always was Golden Hord Territory. Putin came to the Beijin to bow Great Imperor theses days (16-17 May 2024)!! Again and Again.
David Cameron has to bring it on his next visit.
"Now watch this drive!"
I'm sure the people of Gaza can't wait for him to tour Rafah.
Blinken’s personality and guitar Playing is to music ,what Sulfúric acid is to the eyes .
Blinken should have sang "The Damage Done".
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"Rockin' in the Where we Shouldn't Be World."
A truly unforgettable moment!
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Nice one man...