From RT.com…
Biden phoned Macron on Wednesday to discuss last week’s announcement of a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia – which resulted in France losing a multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contract, among other things – and “agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners,” according to a joint statement released by both the White House and the Elysee Palace.