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The irony is that, for that contract, the Australians had requested from the French that their submarines have a conventional propulsion system rather than nuclear, which caused a delay in the delivery schedule. Only after that did they realize they couldn't wait that long to get new subs and turned to the Americans to rent their nuclear ones instead (despite the fact that Australia doesn't even have the infrastructure in place to house and maintain nuclear subs and will now also have to either pay top dollar to build it, or more likely subcontract it from their American or British allies as well, thus beholding them further to their Anglo-Saxon overlords).
Also, strenghtening the French-Indian partnership to "promote multilateral order"? Yeah, kinda sounds like a blatant move to poach one of the UK's allies from the Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence (that being said, that strategic partnership isn't exactly new: two years ago, a researcher from the Hudson Institute was already calling France "India's new best friend"). Time will tell how that play goes...
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The irony is that, for that contract, the Australians had requested from the French that their submarines have a conventional propulsion system rather than nuclear, which caused a delay in the delivery schedule. Only after that did they realize they couldn't wait that long to get new subs and turned to the Americans to rent their nuclear ones instead (despite the fact that Australia doesn't even have the infrastructure in place to house and maintain nuclear subs and will now also have to either pay top dollar to build it, or more likely subcontract it from their American or British allies as well, thus beholding them further to their Anglo-Saxon overlords).
Also, strenghtening the French-Indian partnership to "promote multilateral order"? Yeah, kinda sounds like a blatant move to poach one of the UK's allies from the Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence (that being said, that strategic partnership isn't exactly new: two years ago, a researcher from the Hudson Institute was already calling France "India's new best friend"). Time will tell how that play goes...