French Minister of Defense Florence Parly

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And the decision to cancel the deal may have been the right one, all things considered. You can’t spare everyone’s feelings all the time, the French will get over it, and Australia’s relationship with the United States is, after all, much more important than the relationship with France. I just hope it was worth it.

As for France’s relations with Britain and the United States, let’s say this affair won’t help. Brexit has strained relations between London and Paris, but the French, rightly or wrongly, will now see Uncle Sam’s long arm in all the events that led to the decision to cancel the contract. Macron and Joe Biden don’t like each other very much, unsurprisingly given the differences between them. And the unilateral decision to withdraw from Afghanistan remains in the throats of many Europeans.France rages against Biden’s snub on US-UK-Australia sub-pact
The French government rants over President Biden’s decision to exclude the NATO ally from a three-country security pact called AUKUS that will provide Australia with nuclear submarines, likening the snub to phone number library a coup. knife in the back.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio: “It’s really a stab in the back. We have built a relationship of trust with Australia, and that trust has been betrayed and today I am angry, with a lot of bitterness, about this breakup.

The AUKUS initiative includes the UK and aims to strengthen cooperation as China emerges as a strategic threat. He also asserts the United States’ alliance with Australia after Biden snubbed the country’s prime minister during the recent Afghan troop withdrawal.

“The American choice to exclude a European ally and partner like France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, whether in terms of our values ​​or in terms of respect for multilateralism. based on the rule of law, shows a lack of consistency that France can only observe and regret, ”said the French Embassy in Washington in a press release.

Le Drian and the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly signed the censure.