In the press - Joe Biden and the "genocide" in Ukraine: "Misnaming things is adding to the misfortune of the world"

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In the headlines, the about-face of Sweden and Finland, caused by the war in Ukraine, which could lead the two Nordic countries to abandon their historic policy of non-alignment.

According to

, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson would have agreed during their meeting, Wednesday April 13 in Stockholm, for their countries to join NATO.

According to the newspaper, the Social Democrats have even decided to quickly file the Swedish candidacy, which could be submitted during the NATO summit, scheduled for the end of June, in Madrid.

If Finland and Sweden decide to apply officially, their application could be accepted "in record time", according to

, quoted by Courrier International.

According to the Italian daily, the accession of Helsinki and Stockholm would even be "a simple formality", insofar as the two Scandinavian countries "already participate as observers in NATO military exercises" and where the latter "has already signaled that she (them) would welcome them with open arms".

"Finland and Sweden have their place in NATO", confirms

.

The American daily believes that "the aggression (of Ukraine by) Vladimir Putin has (finally) turned against him, increasing the probability that NATO will actually extend to the borders of Russia".

“A prospect that the United States and the rest of the Alliance should welcome,” according to the newspaper.

He nevertheless recalls that the candidacy of the two Nordic countries "is not an easy task (for Washington) because of the future obligation to defend (them) against external attacks", in accordance with article 5 of the Treaty of 'North Atlantic.

NATO, which Marine Le Pen wants to see "get closer" to Russia, after the end of the war in Ukraine.

Long accused of leniency towards the Russian regime, the French presidential candidate expressed this wish in the context of the presentation of the foreign policy that she will implement, if elected.

A statement taken up by the Spanish newspaper

, which reports that the boss of the RN also says she wants to end military cooperation with Germany, because of "irreconcilable strategic differences", in particular on nuclear power, and transform the Union European Union into a "European Alliance of Nations".

🗞 Le Pen promoted una alianza de seguridad con Rusia tras la guerra;

Semana Santa en carretera: más tráfico que antes de la covid;

Detectados en España tres casos de una rara hepatitis infantil, en la #Portada de EL PAÍS este jueves 14 de abril

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— EL PAÍS (@el_pais) April 13, 2022

In the United States,

underlines that Marine Le Pen also wishes to withdraw France from the integrated command of NATO, on the grounds that its participation "undermines the sovereignty (of France)", and risks lead into conflicts against his will.

The American daily sees in the rise of Mrs. Le Pen the proof, sent to a large part of Europe, that "skepticism about the confrontation with Moscow is not penalized at the ballot box", and that there are " cracks in popular support for the Western coalition against Russia".

"Cracks" in the Western camp, too, between Joe Biden, who accuses Vladimir Putin of "genocide" and Emmanuel Macron, who says he refuses "the escalation of words".

The term used by the American president is also greeted with great caution by the Belgian daily

, which does not exclude that a "silent extermination" may be "in progress", alongside the fighting taking place in Ukraine.

The newspaper, however, asks Joe Biden to "provide proof of what he is saying", otherwise he "would help to maintain opacity on the unprecedented assassination he denounces".

, which makes the "hypothesis" that the American president can "give into one-upmanship and propaganda", as the United States did during the war in Iraq in 2003, quotes the French writer Albert Camus: " To misname things is to add to the misfortune of the world".

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– The Evening (@lesoir) April 14, 2022

The French daily

quotes Euclid, the Greek mathematician: "What is affirmed without proof can be denied without proof".

The newspaper recognizes "that American intelligence has proven its effectiveness in recent weeks" but warns that "nothing would be worse than discrediting the patient and meticulous work of investigators, judges" and journalists.

The patient and meticulous work of journalists, also abused in Algeria, where the daily

, flagship title of the independent French-speaking press, publishes its last issue today.

"Thank you and goodbye", simply titles this daily, which "has carried for 30 years the ideals of democracy and freedom and freedom".

"It is an exhilarating page of the profession that is turning", writes the newspaper, denouncing "the battering of a media policy that is hostile, inefficient and above all, harmful to the interests" of Algeria.

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— Freedom (@JournaLiberteDZ) April 13, 2022

We don't leave each other on this.

After revealing that his country's Ministry of Defense purchased some 35,000 viagra pills, a Brazilian lawmaker, quoted by

, now claims that the Brazilian military purchased 60 inflatable penis implants.

With a unit value of 10 to 12,000 euros, these prostheses would have cost nearly 700,000 euros, in total, to the Brazilian government.

The Ministry of Defense, which explained about viagra that these acquisitions were "intended for the treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension", has not yet responded to the penile prostheses.

The obligation, no doubt, to stand at attention.

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