He said he found out about the canceled contract in the Australian press. вЂњI would like to be able to run into a time machine and be in a situation where we donвЂ™t end up in such an incredible, clumsy, inadequate, un-Australian situation.вЂќ The arms agreement between France and Australia, signed in 2016, was supposed to be based вЂњon trust, mutual understanding and sincerity,вЂќ a fuming Thebault said. вЂњThis has been a huge mistake, a very, very bad handling of the partnership,вЂќ French ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault said before flying home to France.

вЂњThere are reasons for us to question the strength of our alliance,вЂќ Le Drian said.Д®arlier, FranceвЂ™s ambassador to Australia also strayed from diplomatic language when describing what has been widely billed in France as the вЂњcontract of the century.вЂќ Le Drian denied reports that there had been advance consultations with France ahead of the announcement, saying вЂњthis isnвЂ™t true.вЂќДЄllies вЂњdonвЂ™t treat each other with such brutality, such unpredictability, a major partner like France вЂ¦ So there really is a crisis,вЂќ Le Drian said. The deal with French majority state-owned Naval Group was worth at least $66 billion.Дiplomatic niceties have gone out the window as French authorities seek to make their anger known. The French had signed a contract in 2016 for a dozen conventional diesel-electric submarines and the work to make them was already underway. The announcement by President Joe Biden of the deal, alongside the leaders of Australia and Britain, for at least eight nuclear-powered submarines has set France in a fury. He said it was the first time ever that France, the United StatesвЂ™ oldest ally, has recalled its ambassador to the U.S. The recalling of its ambassadors вЂњsignifies the force of the crisis todayвЂќ between the French government and Washington and Canberra, he said in an interview on France 2 television.

deal and declared that a crisis is at hand among the Western allies.ДЄ day after France recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian pummeled what he suggested was a backroom deal that betrayed France.

PARIS (AP) - FranceвЂ™s foreign minister on Saturday denounced what he called the вЂњduplicity, disdain and liesвЂќ surrounding the sudden rupture of FranceвЂ™s lucrative contract to make submarines for Australia in favor of a U.S.

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