French press review
Headline: May 9 under the sign of nuclear war for the Kremlin
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May 7 rehearsal for the parade on May 9, 2022, celebrating the anniversary of the victory over the Nazi regime.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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The specter of nuclear war has been raised in Moscow, which is preparing to celebrate, this Monday, May 9, the victory over Nazi Germany.
“
Is a world war possible?
asks the front page of
L'Express
.
This weekly recalls the televised debate seen on the public channel Rossiya 1 by millions of Russians on April 27, during which hilarious guests, with digital animations in support, talk about the time it would take for nuclear missiles to be launched from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to reach European capitals.
“
Berlin, 106 seconds!
Paris, 200 seconds!
London, 202 seconds!
“, counts the presenter.
"
Count the seconds, can you intercept it?"
Hi, he's already here!
», Then says a mocking guest.
In a previous broadcast, on the state channels RT and Sputnik, a nuclear war had been mentioned as “
the most likely scenario
”.
Precisely, how can Russian President Vladimir Putin react to the development of the war in Ukraine?
According to the front page of
L'Obs
, the master of the Kremlin is "
cornered
" by "
military setbacks
" and by the "
awakening of the West
".
Tomorrow, May 9, is "
the holiest day
" in Putin's Russia, assures Mark Galeotti in
L'Obs.
Admittedly, the master of the Kremlin “
will be able to sell his people a highly symbolic war prize: the fall of Mariupol, the main port on the Sea of Azov
(…)
He will also be able to take advantage of a semi-successful diplomacy: despite his coup, Russia is not isolated on the international scene, several large countries, starting with China, refusing to sanction the invasion of Ukraine.
But he won't be able to claim any triumph, any resounding victory
,” the Russia specialist told
L'Obs
.
nuclear cyberwar
Nuclear war, but not only… Cyber war too, perhaps just as dangerous as that on the ground.
According to
L'Express,
“
because they are centralized, French infrastructures are easier to monitor than those of countries where they have been fragmented by the private sector.
This is the case of the United States, which has no less than 3,300 energy distributors;
even the country's 93 nuclear reactors are managed by 55 different operators.
The cyber protection of this whole system is absolutely lamentable
, ”said Nicolas Chaillan, a time responsible for critical infrastructure at the US Department of the Interior, in
L’Express.
The discourse of the Macron method
In France, yesterday was the investiture ceremony of Emmanuel Macron for his second five-year term, during which the president intends to change his method.
What inspired this remark to his predecessor at the end of the ceremony at the Élysée: "
If I retained one message, it was that he was going to change his method, which means that the previous one would not was not good
”, said to the
Parisian Sunday
François Hollande, according to whom “
the method must change
”.
Beyond this real
discourse on the method
, a close friend of the current president, in
Le Parisien Dimanche
, always wonders about the new name of Emmanuel Macron's party, Renaissance: "
Bizarre, that means that we had died before?
".
… when Collomb discovers Macronie
Other breathtaking confidences of one of the ex-macronists of the first hour about immigration, but also of Emmanuel Macron, those of Gérard Collomb.
It is in the weekly
Le Point
that the former Minister of the Interior breaks the silence.
To speak, indeed, of immigration, first of all.
"
When we see today that the second category of asylum seekers is represented by people from Côte d'Ivoire, which is a safe and economically not the most disadvantaged country, it is nonsense
", says Gérard Collomb to this magazine.
According to this former mayor of Lyon, “
when you let the message
'open doors in our house' spread,
there is inevitably an effect of attractiveness.
This word of attractiveness annoyed the president so much
(Macron)
that we were talking about
"pull effect".
It’s the same thing, but in English
,” he told Le
Point
.
To talk about Emmanuel Macron, then.
According to Gérard Collomb, the French president "
may be in a cosmic thought or be totally absorbed by micro-subjects, but he can sin at the intermediate level, that of the organization
", says Gérard Collomb in
Le Point
.
The method again...
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