FRANCE LEAVING NATO? Macron does not want to solve US foreign policy problems! HE CANCELS US-FRENCH CELEBRATION!

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Namely, Australia has pulled out of a 66 billion dollar worth contract with France's naval shipbuilder, Naval Group, to build a fleet of conventional submarines. 

Macron was infuriated by this, so he called off the US-French joint commemoration of the 240th anniversary of the Battle of the Chesapeake, when the French Navy fought a crucial naval battle on the side of the newly formed USA against the Royal Navy of Britain during the Revolutionary War. France also recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia.

During the Recolutionary War, Paris helped Washington selflessly.  However, they have now decisively cancelled the celebrations which were due to take place at the French ambassador's residence in Washington and on a French frigate in Baltimore, Intermagazin reports.

Because of this, France’s top naval officer, who had traveled to Washington for the gala, was given orders to return to France immediately.

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called this Australia's move - a stab in the back. 

He was not the least bit interested in the fact that Canberra did this under US pressure, after having been promised to receive nuclear-power submarine technology for their future submarines. 

German foreign policy expert Alexander Rahr estimates:

- So now Paris may split NATO. President Macron remains a big critic of the alliance, because he believes that the alliance should protect Europe, not solve the US foreign policy problems.  Washington’s pressure on Europe over the China issue could lead to France abandoning the North Atlantic Alliance again as it did in 1966 under President Charles de Gaulle. He had the idea of united "Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok". If he were the present head of France, I believe that he would be an advocate of the union between Europe and Russia - he said.