Ben Wallace says US withdrawal from international leadership under Donald Trump ‘keeps me awake at night’Britain must prepare to fight wars without US help, says defence secretaryBritain must be prepared to fight future wars without the US as its principal ally, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said. Wallace said the increasing withdrawal of America from international leadership under Donald Trump meant Britain needed to rethink the assumptions underpinning its defence planning for the past decade. Dominic Cummings is right – if only about Britain’s dysfunctional defence spending | Richard Norton-Taylor Read more“I worry if the United States withdraws from its leadership around the world. Wallace said Britain should use the defence review to acquire new capabilities, making it less dependent on the US in future conflicts. “Over the last year we’ve had the US pull out from Syria, the statement by Donald Trump on Iraq where he said Nato should take over and do more in the Middle East,” he said.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 02:03 UTC