Paul J. Berating

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France 'open' to selling Australia submarines if AUKUS collapses

Four years after the $90 billion contract cancellation triggered the worst diplomatic rupture in modern Franco-Australian history, Paris has signalled it would consider reviving submarine talks if AUKUS unravels.

Paris says it'll sell us submarines again if AUKUS falls over — which is more grace than we showed dumping them by text message. Forty months later we're back at the door with a different ring and the same hangdog look. Talleyrand would've charged us interest.