who consulted them on everything. i think the british felt that the decision on afghanistan was sort of made and declared to them. and they were scrambling as the u.s. was as the taliban came in to kabul to get their people out. and then, of course, there was a very conscious effort to keep the french from knowing that the united states, britain and australia were considering the submarine deal, which is actually about submarines and many more technologies, and that went on for months in which the president basically met with president macron and made no mention of this, which is why they overreacted to this issue and withdrew their ambassador and so forth. i think he s got a lot of repair work to do there and you see he s still trying to get a phone
call together with president macron to patch up america s oldest alliance. jeff, the reason for this french row is this deal with australia, the nuclear submarines, saying we need to focus our resources and attention, no longer on the middle east, but on china. is joe biden does he have friends on that point? does very unity on that point among allies as he addresses the united nations? he certainly does in australia. and that is an emerging strengthening alliance. a long time ally. he will also be meeting one on one, president biden will be, with prime minister morris today at noon after the speech. he has allies on the china front, but it makes european leaders worried, what about us, what about the u.s. and european alliances here? as david was saying, the perhaps the most remarkable thing, we could not have predicted that french president