No Mistrals For Putin

Protest in front of the Mistral "Vladivostok" in St Nazaire Sept 2014. Photo: Pierre Raimbault The goals of the French arms industry are 7 billion euros of exported arms per year. If France goes ahead and delivers the Mistral war ships to Russia, the countries that are directly threatened by Putin having such powerful weapon will most likely react by not buying any arms from the French market. For Poland alone, France will kick itself out of  a market of more than 21 billion euros , three years of the total goal for the French arms industry if it does not cancel the Mistral deal. As the newspaper "Le Monde" was underlining  in a recent article , the French market is actually focused on the Middle East countries but the Russian open invasion of Ukraine has brought an increasing interest in Lituania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania and a few other countries to increase their efforts to upgrade their military systems in order to be able to face...

Answer to the question: What will you tell to all the workers that would end up jobless if the Mistral deal is cancelled and in case Russia does not pay the bill?