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Francois Hollande 'quietly' Awards France's Highest Honour to Saudi Crown Prince
- mafribe 11y agoThe context is this: France has become one of Saudia Arabia's biggest trading partners. SA is probably moving away from the US as main arms dealer, who are deemed as having betrayed SA, e.g. by ending hostilities with Iran. Just recently SA bought a huge chunk of weapons from France [1]. SA also wants to buy French nuclear reactors ... [1] http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/france-saudi-arabias-new-arms-dealer-13533 http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/france-saudi-arabias...
- toomuchtodo 11y agoUS citizen here. Not sure I'm concerned with having a trading partner (SA) who is exhausting their sovereign reserves at top speed to undermine domestic tight oil production. TL;DR Good riddance.