'It's wrong to say that the U.S. betrayed France, when France failed to deliver,' Sébastien Roblin writes for NBCNewsTHINK.
on Wednesday, Biden conceded the situation “would have benefited from open consultations among allies” and agreed to hold talks in October on better coordinating strategy in the Indo-Pacific with America’s European partners.
It’s true that Biden handled his coup with little finesse. His team failed to insist that Australia inform France of its withdrawal from their submarine deal well in advance of unveiling the pact with the U.S. and U.K.; instead they deflected inquiries from French officials about what was up.left the matter of when to inform the French up to Australia. In the end, French officials were notified only hours prior to the public announcement of the new pact.
Over the five years that Australia was engaged in buying the submarines from France, going so far as to sign a contract for purchasing them, the estimated total procurement cost had roughly doubled
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