Every war is to the detriment of each citizen were the ruling governments acting according to the best moral rules (if we pretend that common morality is something good).
Guns N’ Roses are highlighting the ever-lasting form of every war.
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before
Their frontman sings that he never fell to Vietnam because he knows that super-rich interest groups are waging the wars in order to control other countries’ economies or spheres of influence. Yes, the soldiers were fighting just because of someone very rich.
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor (it feeds the super-rich groups and it is not the upper class who is fighting the wars)
By saying that billions are shifted from side to side, he is insinuating banking institutions are lending money to both sides and that assets of the super-rich groups (the political entrepreneurs) are movable.
The billions shift from side to side
They also sing that this money-minded theater is dragged by very human emotions (fear, hate, and crying) and he is desperately unable to do something with the war. Brainwashing also plays a role.
Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at your women crying
If every citizen acted as Guns N’ Roses were singing, the world would be a completely different place.
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