Bob Dylan kicked off his Outlaw Music Festival set Friday evening at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, New York, by playing “Masters of War” for the first time since the Desert Trip Festival in 2016 .

Dylan has taken very few political stances since the Civil Rights Movements of the early Sixties, refusing to even condemn the Vietnam War, and his views today on basically any issue are impossible to know. But it’s hard to ignore the fact he’s bringing the song out as wars continue to rage in Ukraine and Gaza without any clear end in sight.

He did something similar at the start of the Gulf War on February 20, 1991, when he played a ragged, reggae-tinged “Master of War” at the Grammy’s after being presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. But when he took to the

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