Those 'experts' know everything, I'm glad they are around every time we need advice.
so?
16 Oct: BBC: Simon Jack: BAE Systems will go to the Saudi ball
The Kingdom bought a sixth of everything the UK defence contractor sold last year and BAE employs 6,000 people on the ground there...
But the BBC has been told that BAE officials will make the trip.
To be fair to BAE, selling military hardware is not a normal business. It is conducted with the express approval of the UK government.
The UK wants to have a national aerospace contractor like BAE - both for national security reasons and for the nearly 40,000 high-skilled, high-paying UK jobs it creates...
The infamous 1980s al-Yamamah series of arms sales to the Kingdom was described at the time by the Financial Times as the “biggest sale of anything by the UK to anyone”...
It was also well known that the French defence industry was sniffing around a new mega-contract at that time...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45882301
24 Oct: France24: France’s Macron evades questions on halting Saudi arms sales
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday refused to take questions about halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia ...
Macron has sought to play down the importance of trade relations with Riyadh, saying that Saudi Arabia was not a major client of France.
However, from 2008-17 it was the second-biggest purchaser of French arms, with deals totalling more than 11 billion euros ($12.6 billion) for tanks, armoured vehicles, munitions, artillery...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was similarly evasive when pressed on the issue, saying he is unlikely to cancel a substantial 2014 sale of armored personnel carriers to Saudi Arabia...
https://www.france24.com/en/20181024-french-macron-questions-saudi-arms-deals-merkel-german-khashoggi-murder