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Three years on: An end to Europe’s Complacency is Urgent - The Foreign Policy Centre

85 years ago, in December 1940, Franklin Roosevelt described the US as the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ in a broadcast made less than a year before the country decisively entered the war against fascism in Europe. That ushered in almost a century where the US could be relied on by European allies.   That security blanket led to complacency and an over reliance on the US by European leaders. The first Trump Presidency and shift in public attitude…