Opinion | David A. Andelman: Yes, the U.S. really did just stab France in the back. - NBCNewsTHINK
and educated at the premier bilingual school in Paris, the École Jeannine Manuel, before heading off to Harvard. Now the growing sense across France is that he has utterly betrayed them.impolitic statement
in response to the move that evoked memories of the Trump years: “The choice to exclude an ally and partner such as France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region shows a lack of coherence that France can only note and regret.”, was blunter: “The world is a jungle. France has just been reminded of this bitter truth by the way the US and the UK have stabbed her in the back in Australia.
France was a key power in Asia coming out of its colonial days and still wants to be seen as a major international player, not just in Europe but globally.