Many Ukrainians felt it inappropriate that the secretary of state was rocking out at all, given that, in their view, Washington’s tardiness is largely to blame for their struggles on the battlefield against Russia.
Ukrainians were not the intended audience of this political stunt. The target audience was Americans, to drum up feelings of jingoism and nostalgia for the empire. And in that aspect, this stunt has worked well. It's like playing born in the USA at pro war American political rallies. The lyrics don't matter, it's about the optics.
Same, it's just complete and utter lack of awareness. The choice of the song is also very on the nose. Clearly they didn't bother to check the context for it.
Yea I'm pretty sure that's what the band said when some dipshit lanyard walked out on stage and starting playing a song about how this is one big game for us
Remember that episode of Party Down where Kyle's band plays a bunch of unintentionally Nazi songs with lyrics about "my struggle" and such? My guess is that Blinken in a band is a lot like that, but intentional.
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can