Blinken sits in with Ukrainian bar band for ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’
Posted on AllSides May 15th, 2024
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Brendan Smialowski/Reuters
Neil Young songs aren’t typically used as tools of diplomacy. Tuesday night in wartime Ukraine’s capital, not long before curfew, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deployed a left-handed guitar in the service of supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia.
Before Blinken became the top American diplomat, he was a serious rock guitarist — and along with a Ukrainian band, he played “Rockin’ in the Free World,” a 1989 song by Young, the Canadian American musician, for a packed basement music club.
To get to Kyiv, Blinken took a...
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