Well this is huff directed more at Australia than the US, given that this affects the project that France and Australia were doing together sans(tee hee a french word) the USA.(Australia now being another country France can’t extract more money from while giving nothing in return). Australia sees China breathing down its neck and nuke subs would give Australia a more effective forward projection of force.
This doesn’t sound bidenesque, it sounds like portions of the government doing things on their own because they don’t ultimately trust who is in the Whitehouse right now and they see trouble brewing that the young woke brats in charge won’t be ready to deal with unless the secret adults have already prepared for it.
Jacques Cousteau was a Nazi collaborator.
I imagine a lineage from his work to the present day French sub industry.
The Anglosphere is far from perfect, but it’s the best thing going.
So apparently, Biden just did this without even informing France and just let them get caught completely by surprise.
Nice one, Joe.
Imagine working on a deal for years and your buddy comes in and steals it from under you.
It would be one thing if it was still in the works. But it sounds like it was pretty much a done deal.
What an a$$ 4ole.
I understand France chagrin. They bad a deal with Australia.
France has nuclear submarines, but the deal with Australia was for diesel powered submarines. They cost less but operationally they are not as quiet as nuclear submarines and they cannot continue to sail for as as many miles at one time as a nuclear sub can.
The U.S. deal will help supply Australia with nuclear subs. Long term it’s a better deal than France’s nuclear subs.
However, when and how the deal was worked out their obviously was not enough diplomacy given to U.S.-French and U.S.-NATO relations BEFORE the deal was announced.
Could not France have been “cut in” on the nuclear sub deal, in as much as the goal is international security in the waters of Asia more than what serves one nation alone. Or, if not that, with the right diplomacy could not France have been offered some equal military hardware supply deal within NATO?
I don’t think the deal between the U.S., U.K. and Australia is bad or wrong. But I do think the Biden administration rushed it just to say they had it, without diplomacy that could have found a way to get France on board with it.
The Biden administration seems to rush pell mell in a number of foreign policy areas. Maybe even they think their time is short.
The French… Go figure… I love the old days of FR regarding mocking the French… Looks like they are in need of another dose… Like him or not this policy of working more closely with the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, etc. in our region here to ally and strategically thwart the aggressive and encroaching red Chinese is the larger game—don’t take your eye off that ball—and just ignore the stupid French, it is exactly what the doctor has ordered and more power to the President or anybody else who can get it right and encircle the Chicoms.
Britain’s Parliament condemns him, France recalls their ambassadors. Canada suing over the oil pipeline cancellation.
At least half the people in America are against the democrats forced vaccination.
The only countries he has made happy are China and Afghanistan and all the south of the border ones sending their poorest people north. Plus here in the USA the democrat party thugs love the democrat party as they can burn down business’s and loot others and maim and kill with impunity.
This never happened under Trump
So two fascist countries partnering up…
France has seen this before.
Oh, GREAT
Another feather in that idiotic pedophile’s hat.
Our relationship with France is, in some ways, greater than with England, and he just destroyed it??????
How many ways do I hate this Joe? Let me count them.
The White House has been accused of omitting French president Emmanuel Macron’s scathing remarks from an official press communication on US president Joe Biden’s handling of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan.
According to the readout, Macron described the mission to evacuate allies as a “moral responsibility” and told Biden: “We cannot abandon them.”
The Élysée said Macron “underlined the absolute need to ensure rapid and concrete coordination among allies on the ground to continue the evacuations”.
The White House version, however, made no mention of a “moral responsibility” to evacuate Afghan allies.
https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article10426
France has long been on the US security watch list, never a five eyes member. Nothing new here. Screw them. Butthurt over losing a contract is all.
Pudding-For-Brains needs to be court martialed. He has failed miserably as “commander-in-chief”.
Remember the saying, Donald Rumsfeld said that going to war with the French is like going deer hunting with an accordian player.
That has finally caught up with the French.
Australia will be a communist state long before they lay the keel of any submarine for Australia.
