say it twice to believe it. france and america are very close allies and america are very close allies and i think it is the first time in the history of the relationship between france and the us that this has happened. the anger is on two levels, as you say, the loss of this $60 billion contract that the french hoped they would be selling submarines to the australians, but also the fact that it was done behind their back, has aggrieved their sense of kind of dignity that this has happened. joe biden came into power with a kind of reputation that it was going to be competent government that he was going to run but they seem to have badly misjudged this in terms of the french reaction. but clive, you and i were paris correspondents many moons ago and it would be negligent not to point out that next spring, there is a french presidential election, emmanuel macron has ordered this and has no doubt calculated that france standing up to its big, powerful ally might be quite popular among t
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