Update since there have been developments in the past few days.
Germany, Norway, and Canada have halted the trade of weapons over the incident once the evidence was clear. Austria has denounced is pushing for the EU to stop weapons sales. New Zealand and Australia have also denounced Saudi Arabia. It's sad to see that so few nations have the integrity to stand against tyranny.
As a side note. Germany and Canada both had spats with Saudi Arabia through the year over human rights violations and the war crimes in Yemen - this should have been enough to get the West united.
France's government calls it "demagoguery" to halt weapons sales to the Saudis for engaging in government assassinations of reporters. The justification is that there is no connection between the character of a government who assassinates journalists and the character of a country from a military standpoint. What the hell, Macron? Even if Khashoggi himself hadn't brought up the Saudi government's war crimes (particularly against Yemen), the very idea that a government assassinates journalists should raise some red flags about all aspects of the character of the government.
In the UK, Corbyn is in favour of denouncing the Saudis and cutting weapons trade... unfortunately this isn't his decision to make; so what he says has little relevance.
The US, Trump, like a good fat orange lapdog, has stated the profiteering of the military industrial is more important than the lives of reporters. He seems perfectly ready to lay sanctions and trade barriers on nations for far lesser crimes... and often for no crimes at all.
Israel, much like France, is saying "Yeah, that assassination is a shame i'n't it? But their money is more important, so we will do nothing."
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
