Antony Blinken, guitar in hand, tells Ukraine to keep ‘rockin’ in the free world’ • FRANCE 24

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1. to continue to "rockin" in the free world' losing your country and citizens

2. no comment… (c)

3. is this a joke?

4. Meanwhile, palestine pays for his dreadful performance on so many fronts. What a joke.

5. Nothing new, he has been on stage before in the US playing his guitar. At least he is not in some sleazy strip joint VIP lounge sipping whiskey…

6. playing a guitar is ok, but bars are open for 'golden ' , while others being killed.

7. Military and civilian authorities in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region paid millions of dollars to fake companies for the supply of non-existent building materials to construct defensive fortifications, the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported on Monday. With no fortifications built, Russian forces have advanced rapidly through the region. Writing in Ukrainska Pravda on Monday, Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Martina Boguslavets explained that Kharkov’s Department of Housing and Communal Services (ZhKG) and Regional Military Administration (OVA) had been given 7 billion hryvnias ($176.5 million to build fortifications to hold back this advance.

   Much of this money was embezzled, Boguslavets claimed. For the supply of wood, the ZhKG and OVA signed contracts worth 270 million hryvnias ($6.8 million) with five companies that were set up immediately after the contracts were announced. No bidding process took place, and at least two of these companies were owned by the same person, Boguslavets wrote.

   “Moreover, the owners of these firms do not resemble successful businessmen and businesswomen,” she wrote. “They have dozens of court cases, from whiskey theft to domestic violence against a husband and mother; some of them are deprived of parental rights and have had enforcement proceedings for bank loans.”

   Boguslavets described these business owners as “avatars,” placed in charge of the companies either for a small fee or without their knowledge. One of the supposed CEOs, whose firm was paid 52 million hryvnias ($1.3 million) is an agricultural laborer, according to Boguslavets’ documents.

   Someone continues to make money on blood.

   Western taxpayer's money going to waste.

8. His vocals are amazing too 🌸

9. So much better than pompao

10. Has he seen Israelis and the damage done?

11. Thank you Blinken for the money for Ukrainian officials – they are grateful while relaxing in their new country houses, Zelensky’s video with super defense in Khartkov turned out to be money laundering. They stole a billion dollars allocated by the government sponsors of the war.. The Russians are willing to change like this.. they say thank you for the Sea of Azov. .

12. Those poor people had to suffer through Bono, and now this.🤦‍♀

13. Yes I’m sure they are enjoying hearing you rock with the free world while rockets rock them

14. Yeah, keep on rocking till Ukraine no more. How bout singing 'Masters of War' or 'A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall', or maybe 'Blowing in the Wind'.

    Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til BLINKEN knows
    
    That too many people have died?
    
    The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
    
    The answer is blowin' in the wind

15. Ukraine men dying on the frontlines, and Blinken who urged Ukraine to reject a ceasefire deal 3 months after the war began is singing at a bar in Kiev. This is so disrespecteful. They are using the Ukrainians to fight a proxy war with Russia and they do not even seem to care about the death toll the war has caused.

16. Blinken rocks! Bet the Ukrainians really dig him!

17. I don't think Neil would appreciate him playing this he is so against war

18. Filth