The National Rally’s (Rassemblement national—RN) “de-demonization” strategy appears to be paying off: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s party is steadily gaining ground in elections, and polls place it in the lead for the spring 2027 French presidential election. The period of normalization for this far-right movement has coincided with an era of upheaval on the international stage. Within this context, a fundamental question arises: what would the RN’s foreign policy look like if it came to power?

Since the start of the Ukraine War, Russian strategic guidelines on the application of air power—seen as the decisive instrument for achieving success in modern wars—have proven to be outdated, irrelevant and even self-defeating.