Allan Little of the BBC has been writing about world affairs since he joined BBC four decades ago. His most recent essay on the American retreat from its leadership role in the defense of the West starts with the origin story in 1947.

“This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one,” he writes. He recalls how Britain, “Exhausted, broke and heavily in debt to the United States,” ceded leadership as Communists revolutionaries threatened Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan and creation of NATO followed soon thereafter.

Read the entire article here: Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling

There is more about Allan Little at this Google page.

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