Roger Waters argues about everything

POLITICS & ROCK ROGER & ME Roger Waters | Co-founder, Pink Floyd CNN SMERCONISH

A CNN interview shows Roger Waters and Michael Smerconish debating Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, Iraq, propaganda and human rights. Waters speaks emphatically and gestures broadly while Smerconish listens and occasionally smiles; the joke is that the rambling, combative interview feels like an absurd fever dream, with possible fly buzzing adding to the surreal mood.

Don't forget 23 million Russians died protecting you and me from the Nazi mannists. And you would think the Russians would have learned their lesson from war and wouldn't have invaded Ukraine. Well, you, with all your reading, I would suggest you, Michael, that you go away and read a bit more and then try and figure out what the United States would do if the The Chinese were putting nuclear-armed missiles into Mexico and Canada. The Chinese are too busy encircling Taiwan as we speak. They're not encircling Taiwan. Taiwan is part of China. And that's been absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948. And if you don't know that, you're not reading enough. Go and read about it. Okay. Did we solve anything here today? No. Well, yeah, we did. didn't. You're believing your propaganda, your side's propaganda. You're defining it as propaganda. But Taiwan, you cannot, you can't have a conversation about human rights and you can't have a conversation about Taiwan without actually doing the reading. Roger, if you're having a conversation about human rights at the top of the list of offenders are the Chinese. Why is it always the Western world? Is there a top of your list? Why is it always the Western world? The Chinese didn't invade Iraq and kill a million people in 2003. In fact, as far as I can recall. Hang on a minute, who of the Chinese invaded and murdered slaughtered

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