“The diplomacy desired by Marine Le Pen would result in a downgrading of France”

Grandstand. Foreign policy is an area not conducive to sudden changes, as the constraint of national interests and past commitments holds a great place. In fact, the Copernican rupture promised by Marine Le Pen suggests a downgrading of France on the international scene if by chance it materializes. Indeed, driven by a vision in which the nation is the central element, the diplomacy proposed by the far-right candidate stems from an ideological corpus that it is necessary to know in order to grasp the scope of the changes that will be undertaken.

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Beyond the apparent attenuations, the announcements made by Marine Le Pen, both in terms of international policy and defence, reveal salient points and a semantics that say a lot about the relationship to the world that she intends to build for France: a bilateralism taking precedence over multilateralism, taking into account the supposed “genius” of nations, as well as a return to secret diplomacy – the latter had been banned after the First World War, because it was considered responsible for triggering the conflict .

The whole thing leads to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Bashar Al-Assad’s Syria and the exit from the integrated command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which should, on the proposal of France, at the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict, re-establishing a partnership with Russia, without specifying the fate that would be done to Vladimir Putin in a story not yet written.

Culturalist scheme

As explained by Magali Balent, researcher at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, in The World According to Marine [Armand Colin, 2012], the national theme already irrigated, logically, on international issues, the discourse of the National Front (FN) in which the betrayal of the elites, watered down avatar of the “foreign party”, figured prominently. Nothing different for Marine Le Pen today, for whom the celebration of the myth of an eternal France, a nation threatened with acculturation by the Anglo-Saxons and globalism, remains the backbone.

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Thus, our country should show its uniqueness and restore its “greatness” while allying with the old nations, like Russia, victims of the same phenomenon as our country, declared Marine Le Pen, in February 2017, in Paris, during a foreign policy speech. The rapprochement with Russia, which it plans today after a hypothetical peace in Ukraine, with the Hungary of Viktor Orban and other illiberal regimes thus takes on its full meaning.

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