“It looks like French lawers thinks otherwise. Given the contract’s value I think they’re professional enough.”
Evidently you are not thinking, otherwise you would realize lawyers are wrong in 50% to 100% of their cases; because some or all lawyers must be wrong in each and every case.
The Budapest Articles of Interpretation 1934 require signatories of the Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 to sanction an aggressor in certain specified ways which include denial of weaponry and war material for the aggressor. Russia is currently an aggressor under the provisions of the Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 and the Charter of the United Nations. France is under a treaty obligation to refrain from arming the aggressor, but that has not stopped it doing so before such as its illegal arming of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The Budapest Articles of Interpretation 1934 ...
Since you're citing those international treaties, it seems you pretend to be a lawer from the better half than those French ones - why wouldn't you apply for the job with their shipbuilders/government?