.I don't thing this would say so....
Posted on 10/31/2021 11:03:03 PM PDT by naturalman1975
French President Emmanuel Macron’s accusation, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting, that Scott Morrison is a liar is of course ridiculous. Nonetheless there is substance in the French leader’s charge that Australia may not get a nuclear submarine in any relevant time frame.
And there is also substance in the charge that there is a certain reputational cost to the way the conventional submarine issue has been decided in Australia.
The real villain from Australia’s point of view, however, is not the tiny foot stamping, cheek puffing episode of Macron, but the really disappointing and much more damaging betrayal of Australia’s diplomatic interests by US president, Joe Biden.
Biden is at that stage of cognitive decline where routinely he can’t remember what he can’t remember. But the idea that the Americans didn’t know the French would be annoyed by the AUKUS decision is ludicrous beyond belief. If this is the charge the Biden administration is making, it shows what a ropey operation they are, and in some senses how irresponsible.
Biden has massively magnified the political consequence of Macron’s temper tantrum by calling the AUKUS process clumsy and apparently agreeing that he thought the French had been fully informed in advance.
Macron’s perfidy is readily explainable by his approaching election. He is running a general, and typically French, nationalist abuse campaign against all the main Anglo-Saxons. His abuse of Morrison is as nothing compared with his fishing wars with Boris Johnson and the Brits.
Biden’s diplomatic contempt for Australia is much more disturbing....
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
“what a ropey operation they are”
Thank you.
“the Cadaver ‘can’t remember what he can’t remember’”...
archive.today is your friend in these sort of situations.
.I don't thing this would say so....
[snip] Macron’s perfidy is readily explainable by his approaching election. He is running a general, and typically French, nationalist abuse campaign against all the main Anglo-Saxons. His abuse of Morrison is as nothing compared with his fishing wars with Boris Johnson and the Brits. Biden’s diplomatic contempt for Australia is much more disturbing. [/snip]
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