Olivier de Lagarde 8:54 a.m., March 15, 2024
Every day on Europe 1's morning show, Olivier de Lagarde scrutinizes and analyzes the day's press.
Today, the Macron-Putin face to face, the Russian elections, the entry into the Pantheon of Sylviane Agacnsky, Judith Butler at the Center Pompidou and the portrait of the new commander of the Tourville nuclear attack submarine.
It's as if Emmanuel Macron had decided to interfere in the electoral campaign... Russian!
Well, there is little chance that the interview with the President of the Republic will interfere with the re-election of Vladimir Putin, we will come to that…
But let's start with Yesterday's Interview... One of the big questions was whether our president was going to backpedal somewhat after his shocking remarks on a possible intervention of French troops in Ukraine.
Well the answer is no!
Macron takes on the face to face with Putin headlines Le Figaro…
“The war in Ukraine is existential for France” his sentence serves as the title of the Parisian Today in France…
And yes, very naive is anyone who imagined that the president would qualify his remarks and reassure the country.
On the contrary, writes Philippe Gélie in his editorial Emmanuel Macron beats the drums of War and continues to mobilize minds.
From now on, Vladimir Putin has no more resolute adversary in Europe than Emmanuel Macron…
3 days and 2 nights…
And above all no more resolute adversary in Russia…
Yes, because that's the other big topic of the day... The Russian presidential elections... A sham election where any form of opposition has been muzzled...
They take place over 3 days, reminiscent of Les Echos.
More precisely 3 days and 2 nights because during the nighttime closing of offices, it is the ideal time to stuff the ballot boxes explains a young opponent to the newspaper correspondent.
Alexander Kynev, one of the few independent political scientists in Moscow, estimates the level of forced or fraudulent votes at around 20%, writes Benjamin Quénelle.
“The propaganda targets in particular all Russians who depend on the state.
Civil servants, retired student soldiers and employees of public groups must vote for Putin.
All means are good to force them.”
It is also fascinating to see in 2024, a power in place taking so little trouble to mask its totalitarian side...
The 2 lefts
“It was yesterday in Paris, under a spring sun, writes Etienne de Montéty of Le Figaro, the drums of the Republican guard greeted the entry of Sylviane Agacnsky under the dome.”
11th woman to enter the French Academy.
Le Figaro devotes 2 full pages to the event.
The newspaper which salutes a philosopher, subtle, courageous and I would add left-wing!
But not just any left.
Marc Lambron, who delivered the induction speech, addressed her in these words: “You illustrate Girondin feminism when the Jacobins are on campus…”
That in gallant terms these things are said.
To remind us that these courageous positions against surrogacy have earned him unquenchable hatred from extreme feminists.
Moreover, in this regard, their high priestess is in France at the moment... Judith Butler, the American philosopher and champion of gender theory, was invited by the Pompidou center...
And the world devotes a large article to it, a little embarrassed all the same, because it revives the controversy on the left, regrets the newspaper.
A few days ago, during a round table, she affirmed that the terrorist attacks of October 7 by Hamas were part of the resistance... This is an uprising which cannot be equated with a terrorist act or an anti-Semitic attack…
Judith Butler also spoke about the rapes perpetrated that day, affirming that if these “allegations are documented we deplore these acts... But we insist on seeing this documentation, she added a bit suspiciously...
Addressing the room, she predicted that she would soon be attacked for having made her remarks, but you will defend me, she added… Storm of applause in the audience.
The world of silence
But we are going to finish this morning in other shallows, but these are silent.
It is in the Cross that you will read the portrait of the new commander of the Tourville nuclear attack submarine.
His name is Guillaume Egret and he comes from the very bottom says Olivier Tallés… He is a former sailor who entered the navy at 18 with barely his baccalaureate in his pocket… “Studies are not for everyone explains -he… So he climbed all the ranks one by one…
Responsible for listening to the sounds, he discovers the life of a submariner in complete isolation.
Without internet or telephone.
(Imagine your teenager...) A world of silence which allows you to think, he says... And then that also requires some relational qualities...
Because you find that you are a little tight at home?
Well, a submarine sums it up... it's a bit like if you had to live and work with 70 people, in a 120 square meter apartment.
Today, at the helm of this flagship of the Marien Nationale, he will need calm... His mission will be to open the way for the atomic launcher submarine in the event of a conflict with whom you know...