“Vladimir Putin is doing Joe Biden a favour,” says Paolo Garimberti in la Repubblica. Before Russia threatened to invade Ukraine, the American president’s approval ratings were a disaster. But as Putin has become more aggressive, previously hesitant countries in the West have been forced to take sides – even us “reluctant” Italians. Everyone is now following America. And Biden’s stance on Ukraine has strong support among Democrats and even some Republicans.

When Universal studios released their adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930, movie execs were certain they “had a hit on their hands”, says Sonny Bunch in The Washington Post. Germany was one of the biggest markets for Hollywood films and the anti-war story was told from a German perspective. But the Nazis had other ideas. On opening night, brownshirts in the audience yelled at the screen, and Joseph Goebbels told the crowd that “Hollywood had come to Germany to sully its reputation”. Universal hastily scrubbed the film of anything that might offend Nazi sensibilities. Two years later, German authorities introduced Article 15: “a provision that gave Germany the right to cancel distribution agreements with any studio that produced a film it found offensive”.