It's a little late for a phone call. And yet Joe Biden offering to ring up Emmanuel Macron for the first time since the United States poached a multibillion dollar submarine contract and sprang the surprise an AustraliaUKUS military alliance. Excluded are the French and their sizeable IndoPacific fleet. For all those stateside leaders who love Paris and refer to France as America's oldest ally, how much can the French trust Washington?

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