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France’s Lucrative Arms Deals

An article behind a pay wall , but you still get the gist. “Over the last 50 years, France has sold arms to some of the world’s most brutally repressive governments. In the 1970s its customer list included South Africa’s apartheid regime, Argentina’s junta, Franco’s Spain and the Greek colonels. Today its preferred clients are Saudi Arabia and Abdel Fattah al-Sissi’s Egypt.”

UK

Andrew Smith of  Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)  said: "By training and collaborating with despots, dictatorships and human rights abusers, the UK risks making itself complicit in the abuses that are being inflicted." “Risks making itself complicit”? Andrew Smith is either naive or a liberal idiot. UK ‘providing training for repressive regimes’