THEhe conclusion of the sale contract for 80 Rafale in the United Arab Emirates is excellent news for our industry. But it would be choosing the “little end of the telescope” to open, on this occasion, only the often revisited file of the compatibility of the contracts of armaments and the defense of the human rights.
Indeed, even if Emmanuel Macron’s meetings with his interlocutors in Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Saudi Arabia justify raising these questions, it is their geopolitical significance, which is major, which should above all interest us. For two decades now, the Middle East has experienced an upheaval in its strategic balance. The two main powers which maintained it on behalf of the Arab world, Iraq and Egypt …
