France doesn't have much to laugh about these days, so it can thank Australia for this.
In 2021 Australia stabbed France in the back by cancelling, without prior warning, a $66 billion deal to build submarines in order to buy US submarines instead.
However it's now becoming clearer and clearer that the US will never be able to deliver the AUKUS subs. So there's now - 3 years afterwards - growing calls to cancel the AUKUS submarines contract and go back to the French. 😆
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-risks-are-piling-up-australia-must-prepare-to-build-french-ssns-instead/
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