Jilted France Accuses Australia of ‘Treason’, Calls Britain a U.S. ‘Vassal’Jack Montgomery 19 Sep 2021
The French government is seething over Australia’s decision to drop a troubled multi-billion French submarine deal in favour of collaboration with Britain and America, describing it as “treason”.
“Our British friends explained to us that they were leaving the EU to create Global Britain. As you can see, it is a return to the American fold and accepting a form of vassal status,” France’s minister for Europe, Clément Beaune, seethed in comments to state broadcaster Public Sénat reported by The Times — as if Britain being an EU member and the French getting the submarine contract would have meant the British were more sovereign, somehow.
He harped on the same theme in comments to France 24, jeering that “Global Britain seems to be more about [being] a junior partner of the U.S. than working with different allies.”
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was perhaps even more undiplomatic, accusing Britain of “permanent opportunism” and being the “fifth wheel on the carriage” with respect to the Australia deal, while another government source said the British were now sitting in the “American lap”.
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