Europe in general doesn't really punish intelligence actions of allies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair

> The Mossad agents in question were imprisoned,

I mean, they were all released within 18 months. And France is definitely an ally of SA, and the third largest seller of weaponry to SA after US & UK.

That was a French intelligence action on foreign soil, so it really can't tell you much about France's willingness to retaliate against foreign intelligence actions against their own citizens.

I'm suggesting the nation that carries out terror attacks on non-belligerent nations should probably sit this one out.

Excuse you?

Every industrialized country does black ops. France just happened to get caught, once, 35 years ago, and has been paying reparations ever since.

Saying it's "the nation that carries out terror attacks" from this is extremely dishonest, especially when compared to other world powers (hello US).

> Every industrialized country does black ops.

Most of them aren't targeting unarmed environmentalist boats in a peaceful harbor of an ally.

It was a remarkably stupid op, and I don't think it's at all inappropriate to describe it as a terrorist act.

That was a long time ago, under an entirely different government.

I think that Macron, being the outspoken politician he is, would probably do something, at the very very least to save face from the far right party who would be all over this.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

When has there ever been an instance where the West has punished Saudi Arabia?

The West is a very broad term, including countries as diverse and as wildly different as Belgium, the US, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, UK, and even Australia and New Zealand.

Germany for instance had the decency to ban arms exports to Saudi Arabia.

Having them spend so much with Western companies on such an ineffective military can be seen as a form of punishment