White House climate envoy John Kerry revealed this week that President Biden was “literally” unaware of the conflict between the U.S. and France that occurred last month after Australia ditched a contract with France for submarines, and signed on with the U.K. and U.S. instead.
“We have a relationship with France that is so much bigger than this moment of what happened with respect to the lack of communication that has been defined already,” Kerry began. “And I found that today in talking with President Macron an understanding that we have so much to work on. France is a great leader. France historically has written so much of history and we together have written so much of our history together. And our commitment to values, to freedom, to liberty, to justice, to a strong Europe, to our ability to be able to work together is much, much stronger than any of these differences of the last few days and I think you will see that very quickly.”
“President Biden looks forward to meeting with President Macron and I’m absolutely confident that the bigger issues that we have to work on about nuclear weapons, about cyberwarfare, about climate, about the economic dislocation of the world, about the challenges of the less developed world, we have a lot of work to do and we can’t get lost in a, you know, a momentary event that I think we will get past very quickly,” he added.
“[Biden] asked me,” Kerry continued. “He said, ‘what’s the situation?’ and I explained exactly, uh. He wasn’t, he had not been aware of that. He literally had not been aware of what had transpired and I don’t want to go into the details of it, but suffice it to say, that the president, my president is very committed to strengthening the relationship and making sure that this is a small event of the past and moving on to the much more important future.”
John Kerry admits in interview with French TV that Joe Biden had no idea about the fallout with the French from the AUKUS sub deal.
"He literally had not been aware of what had transpired" pic.twitter.com/EblvE05zKg
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