So from a historical standpoint....back in 1963/1964....the French (along with the Germans/British) didn't buy into the one-guy conspiracy deal with JFK. The Warren Commission Report? Total failure of convincing them? Yeah, and this set the stage for the next two decades of distrust over the leadership of the United States.
You can laugh about this, but the general gut feeling out of France by the mid-1960s....a coup of some type had taken place, with various parties (from extremists to rogue agents of the CIA) had participated in the execution of JFK.
So as things developed in June/July, and it was obvious that no one had a plan for Afghanistan....a lot of that past feeling of distrust arose. The sub deal with Australia, and how the French contract suddenly dissolved? It merely added to the whole mess.
This week....Secretary of State Blinken and President Macron will meet. I'm guessing that Blinken will hint that he really didn't know much about this sub deal suddenly happening, and he was in the 'dark'. To which.....Macron will ask if President Biden was in the 'dark' as well. It'd be best if Blinken didn't respond to that question.
What'll happen after the meeting? Macron will sit down....evaluate the landscape, and probably come to grasp that the US has slipped off into some 'Twilight-Zone' situation, with President Biden lacking skills and mind for the job (probably looking at VP Harris in the same manner).
What happens over the next year? It might be curious to watch how this plays out and if Macron assumes the role of 'leader-of-the-free-world'.
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