Torpedoed alliance? US downplays rift as France recalls ambassador

It's a little late for a phone call. And yet Joe Biden is offering to ring up Emmanuel Macron for the first time since the United States poached a multibillion-dollar submarine contract and sprang the surprise of an Australia-UK-US military alliance. Excluded are the French and their sizeable Indo-Pacific 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?