Oh Great, Now We're Enemies With France

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​OH GREAT, NOW WE'RE ENEMIES WITH FRANCE

​​   In a nutshell, Australia had a $60 billion deal to buy a dozen submarines from France. In the meantime the United States snuck behind France's back and offered Australia better deal for a better sub. Australia dropped the France deal and took the U.S. deal. Britain is somehow involved in the stew on the side of the Americans and Australians, but I'm not altogether sure how. Now France is somewhat ticked with Australia and Britain, but is enraged with the United States and has called back it's ambassadors from Washington and also cancelled what was to be  a joint Franco-American celebration of a Revolutionary War battle. 
       But here's what I'm wondering: When we're told that France is enraged against the United States, what exactly is meant by "France?" and "The United States?" Is "France" the 67.06 people who live in that country and are they all now the enemies of the 328.2 million of us who live  in the U.S,?
       Or does "France" and "The United States" really refer to the leaders of each of those countries,

...and the billionaire submarine-makers who stand to gain more billions from the submarine deal?

  They're the players who have the dog in this fight. Surely not us Americans and not the French, all of us who, though living on other sides of the pond, are just trying to cobble together reasonably pleasant, productive lives for ourselves and make it through this miserable pandemic.
        As for Australia - that to say the 26.35 million good folks who go about G'day-ing each other, not  the the Prime Minister,

...or the Commander of the submarine fleet - do those Australian citizens really care whether their navy's submarines can stay underwater for weeks - as the more conventionally-powered French product can - or weeks, months, years, depending on how much food they can stock - as the American nuclear-powered subs can? (BTW, I'm assuming that nobody weighed in with the Australian sailors who'll soon have to stay submerged indefinitely what they think of the the French vs. the American product).
      The reason Australia wants the subs is to keep an eye on China, which everyone seems to think to a good idea. Except that France - that is to say the President of France and the French billionaire submarine makers - want to be the ones to sell Australia - that is to say, the Prime Minister and the submarine fleet Commander - the eyes.   
       All of this begs a really big question: Why are all these wealthy, resource-rich countries worried about their war games and war toys when The United States, France, Britain, Australia,  China and the rest of the World - and I'm talking about the human population, not the leaders or the military construction billionaires - are suffering  in the midst of a terrible pandemic? Aren't enough
people dying as it is without these countries spending their time and resources on their plans and their machines designed to make more people die? Why don't the U.S., France, Britain, Australia, and China forget about their hostilities and their submarines and form an alliance to defeat the insidious enemy that's decimating all their economies and sickening and killing all their people?

    No, instead these leaders will make us, the people of each country, believe that the people of the other countries are our friends or enemies depending on what  profits their position of power, 

...and lines the pockets of the billionaires.

       What fools we mortals be.