Seems like just a poke in the eye to SpaceX. France owns Ariane which is one of the only other commercial space launch platforms. They can't really poke Space

Seems like just a poke in the eye to SpaceX. France owns Ariane which is one of the only other commercial space launch platforms. They can't really poke SpaceX directly since I don't imagine they have any substantial operations in France. If anything, seems like France has a massive conflict of interest here to judge this.