Why the French are so upset.

[Hortensis]

8. But almost nothing's all about money for nations. In this case,

sure, reportedly loss of this huge contract is big enough to affect the French economy, with a whole network of businesses adversely affected and tax revenue lost. Many people will hurt.

But it's also about France's role in world affairs and what happened when tRump mostly abandoned our leadership of many nations in controlling China's increasing aggression. This left a vacuum and caused serious new security concerns for many nations, over 40 bordering the Pacific alone, but including all the others also, including France.

France set out to play a greater role among our allies in the Pacific, and elsewhere, but their attitude toward containment of China's hegemonic ambitions is reportedly more accommodating and conciiatory than the U.S.'s. I doubt the nations most immediately threatened by, and being forced into undesired dependence on, China are unhappy with a stronger stance, certainly not Australia.

And, back to money, it's going to be extremely costly to keep China from gaining control of the oceans from east Africa to the Americas' Pacific waters, to include France's interests in that region, and eventually becoming the planet's major superpower. There'll be lots of marine contracts alone.