This diagram below has been helpfully put together because digitisation enables such quick overviews.

Thanks to digitisation  we have given away our personal information believing it was held securely, TRUSTING the systems which held the data.

It has now been stolen and tampered with by those who had contempt for us believing in such a myth.

Anne Applebaum wrote in the Atlantic, February 29th 2025:

For eight decades, America’s alliances with other democracies have been the bedrock of American foreign policy, trade policy, and cultural influence. American investments in allies’ security helped keep the peace in formerly unstable parts of the world, allowing democratic societies from Germany to Japan to prosper, by preventing predatory autocracies from destroying them. We prospered too. Thanks to its allies, the U.S. obtained unprecedented political and economic influence in Europe and Asia, and unprecedented power everywhere else.

The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end.