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It depends on how much France depends on its economic and military ties to the kingdom. France exports a large amount of arms to Saudi and trains some of its army. I imagine this would be covered up Trump admin style to keep the money flowing.

https://saudileaks.org/en/protests/

Edit: Here are the links referring to the Trump admin actions. The Trump admin basically towed the line that MBS had nothing to do with the Khashoggi murder even though they knew that to be a lie and then rushed an arms sale to the Saudis as an emergency.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/saudi-arabia-arms...

I disagree.

The standard response is hand wringing about what one could possibly do, a reminder of the jobs that are at stake and then carrying on as normal.

That’s what Trump did and I’m not aware of any cover up around this murder from his administration. Have you got a link?

“Mike Pompeo has backed his president, saying after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that "it's a mean, nasty world out there".”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46283355

>The standard response is hand wringing about what one could possibly do, a reminder of the jobs that are at stake and then carrying on as normal.

Yep. Just like the world's response to the genocide going on in China.

The downvotes will be due to your comment’s lack of relevance.

There is a small connection though - Trump himself noted that America refusing to trade with Saudi would just lead to more trade with China and Russia. My above comment has a BBC link which notes this.

"If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries,"

Sanctions != hand-wringing in my opinion but its still not enough to counter what on its face moves closer and closer to becoming Holocaust 2.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-eu-sanctions/we...

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