The UK is in
partnership with the US on the Australian deal. It did not receive a major
reaction from Paris but demonstrated its position by hailing the agreement with
the continent. Russia, however, has an unexpected reaction to France. One of the Russian
embassies, the Russian embassy in South Africa said on Twitter, “France is angered
by Australia’s buying US submarines while cancelling the French-Australian
contract. Isn’t that the same thing that happened in 2014 when France refused to
deliver the “Mistral” ships to Russia in violation of an earlier agreement?
What goes around comes around.”
Those two Mistral are sold to Egypt with an agreement with Russia while Russia received compensation. France refused to sell the ships to Russia as a reaction to the Russian led invasion of Crimea.
