France recalls their ambassadors

[Thryleon]

There is a lot of posturing about Australias role in this, but we are small fry in the scheme of things.  This is more about EU geopolitics and Brexit than anything to do with Australia.

We are simply a tool for the UK in this case.

Whether or not either deal was good or bad for Australia is neither here nor there in this case.  It might be what we are focussing on, but when you detach the emotion from it, we have torn up one sub deal and signed another for a very similar outcome.