To quote Maynard James Keenan,

Desensitized to everything / What became of subtlety?

I think you got it.

Duff may have had a hand in making Axl realize they can all make money by sitting on their asse(t)s.

And again, Slash planted that into the CBS This Morning over three months prior.
The interviewer refers to what Slash told them before, leading him on to it.

I think Slash was referring to the clearance of AFDem and the ability to suss biz matters out.
Axl has been a nightmare to work with re: back catalogue licensing in the past.

"Old Guns promotion."
That's what Axl would call it.

He owns the name, so the reunion is his call to make, ultimately.

Thanks for these.

To me, they are circumstantial.

Basically, I see other people riled up about the idea of reunion.
IMO, Slash is trying to tone it down as nothing's that easy with Guns.

It's funny how people were saying 'This band's over,' when two guitarists were announced to leave earlier in the year.
Then, it turned out to be a good thing. Ditto Tommy, he's on hiatus or whatever, but the idea of his exit is received with glee.

It's really a sorry job, when you're in the band for a decade or two, and people still cheer when you step down, as they want you to make room for your predecessor.

That's your take and you're entitled to it.

However, what are the indications (aside the click n' bait brouhaha) that there's development?
Seriously, I'm curious.

So far, there's the Slash take.

This was months before it made 'news'. Anything else?

First of all, strength for Paris.

I agree. Only we may have different ideas as to how to breach the situation, which I agree, is condemnable. All attacks on human life are.

If anything, they make everything worse and natives rise up in a decade to bite the hand that feeds the war machine. Allies become fanatics and enemies of the state that supplied them in the first place.

Afghanistan was transformed from a kingdom to a republic in 1973, when Mohammed Daoud Khan deposed the king, his cousin, in a non-violent coup. Daoud refused the ancient title of shah and became the first president of the country. He worked actively for the betterment of women's rights and creating jobs for the people.

Daoud wanted lessen the country's dependence of Soviet support and strengthened the military. Story has it he met with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and in 1977, told him dead in the eye that Afghanistan would remain free, and the Soviet would never have a say on how the country would be governed.

Almost exactly a year later, Daoud was killed in the presidential palace in a coup. The new government issued a statement that he had resigned for health reasons. His final remains, along with 28 others, were eventually discovered in mass graves in Kabul in 2008, thirty years after his death.

By September 1979, Afghanistan was in the grips of a civil war and in an open conflict with the Soviet Union.

The situation we abhor in more stable countries has been the only life many Afghans have ever experienced.