Allan Little
Senior correspondent•@alittl
This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, «Trumpism will outlast his presidency». But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back?
At 09.00 one morning in February 1947, the UK ambassador in Washington, Lord Inverchapel, walked into the State Department to hand the US Secretary of State, George Marshall, two diplomatic messages printed on blue paper to emphasise their importance: one on Greece, the other on Turkey.