Lars von Trier defends ‘Russian lives matter also’ comment

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/25/lars-von-trier-defends-russian-lives-matter-also-comment

Film-maker criticises Danish PM for donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and posing with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

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espiritu_p@kbin.social · 16 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Of couse russian lives matter too.
contrary to Russia, Ukraine treats it's POWs well and according to international rules.

rynzcycle@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y

Yeah, it seems the hot take of a moron, not a villian.

remotelove@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y

Russian lives do matter, but not in Ukraine. That is the point the Kremlin is trying to make, right?

WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y

The odds are good that he thinks appeasement is the best course.

Diplomjodler@feddit.de · 8 pts · 3y

If you care about Russian lives, you should do everything you can to get rid of Putin.

Sicktatties@discuss.online · 6 pts · 3y

I wouldnt be surprised if he smelled like fungus and sour dairy.

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

I've always hated his movies, they are the extremely unpleasant product of a disturbed mind. Now here he is yet again publicly saying something extremely misguided and stupid IRL.

textik@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What is the opposite of this sentiment?

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

That’s gold! Gold I say

tal@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

“Russian lives matter also!” he wrote on Instagram on Tuesday after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to Denmark, where he and Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, inspected the F-16s to be delivered to his country.

Sure. But when you're fighting a war -- and this is a war that Russia chose to initiate, not Ukraine, and which Russia could choose to terminate at any time -- people are going to die.

I don't think that anyone claimed that the deaths don't matter.