UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Strums The Smiths For Ukrainian Soldier

Oh boy. OK. Let's get into it. Western politicians seem to believe that they can affect the outcome of the war between Russian and Ukraine, and they seem convinced that the best way to do this is by showing up in Ukraine with their guitars and serenading Ukrainian troops — or, at least, that the act of serenading Ukrainian troops will make them appear tough and cool to voters back home. Or maybe that's not what they think! I don't fucking know! I can't read their minds! I just know that this exact thing has happened more than once and that it didn't become any less absurd the second time.Back in 2024, Joe Biden's actively evil Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken visited Kyiv jumped onstage at a bar to cover Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World." Amazingly, that did not immediately end the war, which remains ongoing. Now, the United Kingdom has a brand new prime minister, and he tried something similar on his first trip abroad. Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Manchester, took the position of prime minister last month, following the resignation of his comically ineffectual predecessor Keir Starmer. Burnham has come up on this website once before — in 2020, when he condemned an Em...