“There has been the lie, there has been duplicity, there is a serious breach of trust”. The French Foreign Minister said on TV Jean-Yves Le Drian about the submarine crisis with the US, Australia and Great Britain, triggered by Canberra’s decision not to confirm the billionaire purchase of French submarines to instead choose US nuclear ones, as part of the Aukus pact, an alliance in an anti- Chinese.
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For Le Drian, what happened “will weigh on the future of NATO”. “In a true alliance we talk to each other, we respect each other. It wasn’t like that,” added the minister. “For the first time in history between the US and France we have called our ambassador back for consultations. It is a heavy political act that represents the gravity of the crisis between our two countries and with Australia”.
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On Joe Biden’s role in the White House, Le Drian said that “the Biden method resembles the Trump method. With fewer tweets.” As for the position of Great Britain, against which France did not decide the recall of the ambassador, Le Drian used vitriolic words: “There is no need to recall our ambassador to the United Kingdom. We know opportunism well. perennial of Great Britain, and in this case they are the spare tire “.
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