Christophe wrote:For arms trafficking, no need: France remains one of the top 5 arms sellers in the world, no need to take traffic into account!
Yes but it is not arms trafficking strictly speaking, since it is done in a perfectly legal manner, and then it is to develop democracy in the world let us not forget!
To whom does France sell its arms? The Defense Economic Observatory ultimately makes a fairly counter-intuitive diagnosis. The Near and Middle East represent only 16,5% of 2016 exports. The region is surpassed by the EU (23%), Asia (22%) and even Africa (21%), the latter even showing the greatest contribution to export growth. On the import side, 72,5% of the equipment imported in 2016 came from Europe (40% from the EU) and 16,6% from America.
https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/defense/la-france-championne-des-ventes-d-armes_473623According to Amnesty International we are in the top 3 of arms sellers in the world, behind China and the USA (small countries so ...)
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.