the france thing seems to have escalated. genuinely surprised by this. whats the french perspective here? feels like kind of an overreaction but maybe im missing something also seems like another L for the Biden foreign policy competency story? like, imagine they didnt see this
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cant velieve id misspell sometjing in anorher languagehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1285465395118223364?s=19 …
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This is all so extremely weird from the US / AUS even outside diplomacy: From a deal development perspective: the French normally build subs and big ships nuclear, and have for a long time; they are plausibly the leading nation in nuclear power generation in the world, …
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… and a very healthy second in ship reactors. AUS asks them for a conventional design, they propose one, the Australians take it – and then cancel for a nuclear design that the French would have had more experience in from the start.
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Then there’s capacity: Allegedly the US cannot build capacity quickly enough to expand its own sub fleet as fast as it should for potential SCS conflict, and now they insist on also delivering to SCS-adjacient allies instead of working with highly experienced allies?
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(which would have made said allies a lot more invested in the outcome of any such conflict to boot, getting crapped on is bad arms export advertising)
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Wild version: Arms deals often have detailed classified info exchange under NDA before acceptance. What if French actually believed that “for you” didn’t include “…and all your anglo cousins” and this was basically an info pull?
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i found this a helpful depiction of various sides, may be of interesthttps://twitter.com/finnitejest/status/1439009790835904516?s=19 …
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