Well actually their STATED GOAL was to be highly competitive in the international launch market as well. When Ariane 6 was greenlit there was much talk about th

Well actually their STATED GOAL was to be highly competitive in the international launch market as well. When Ariane 6 was greenlit there was much talk about that this investment needed to be made to be competitive and so on and so on. And of course now 10 years later its all like 'all we wanted is independent space access'. Of course if that was the case just flying Ariane 5 would have been better. Not having 3 different rockets would have been better.