So the thickheads in US, Australia and the UK created a new Anglo-Saxon partnership, slyly aimed at countering China in the South Asian seas. The first act was for US and UK to partner up and sell the Royal Australian Navy some nuclear powered submarines, which meant that Australia abandoned a $66 billion deal to purchase diesel-electric submarines from a French company.
This pissed off France to an extent not seen since may be war time, as the foreign minister essentially called it a "stab in the back" from apparently close allies. The nuclear non-proliferation groups are mad that submarines running on enriched uranium would give other dickheads like Iran a new excuse to enrich uranium, which can conceivably be used for nuclear weapons.
France today kicked things off to a higher gear by recalling its ambassadors to both the US and Australia, which, traditionally doesn't happen between allies.
So, that escalated quickly and this probably merits its own thread.