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French submarines are still for sale if Australia wants them. The day after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the G20 summit in Bali, Emmanuel Macron assured that the offer of twelve conventionally powered submarines is still on. “on the table”. Canberra bought them in Paris in 2016 before changing their mind in 2021 under pressure from the Americans and the British. The latter had just signed a military alliance with Australia (Aukus) at the time and had convinced Canberra that their proposal for nuclear-powered submarines was preferable to the Paris proposal. The “Treaty of the Century” failed, France was humiliated, and its relations with Australia entered the polar era.
At that time, Emmanuel Macron accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of deception and lying. But the time has passed. First of all, the Prime Minister of Australia has changed. Conservative Morrison conceded…
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Source: Le Figaro
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