Biden calls handling of defense deal that upset France 'clumsy'

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

ROME — President Biden sought to smooth over relations with America’s oldest ally Friday, saying the United States had been “clumsy” in its handling of a weapons agreement with Australia that effectively led Canberra to cancel a multibillion-dollar contract with the French and give the business to Washington instead.

“It was not done with a lot of grace,” Biden said, sitting beside French President Emmanuel Macron in their first face-to-face meeting since the deal provoked a rift between the United States and France.

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[henbuck]

1. Sore losers

It is called completion, handle it.

[hlthe2b]

3. I think you meant "competition," not "completion"... but I think it should have been handled

better as well. After Trump's four years of screwing over the democratic world--our allies, we should at least have given France a diplomatic "heads up." It was a big screw-up and one I won't justify by calling the rest of the world "sore losers." Honestly, that is what Trump would have done. (Only he would have f...ked up the deal at the same time).

[Igel]

4. "Mistakes were made."

Passives cancel deep subjects.

Or so Chomsky would have said at some point. (Haven't followed things since "Move-alpha.&quot

[3825-87867]

2. Sails?

Maybe France could build the Aussies Sail Powered Subs? LOL!

Be pretty cheap!