Who really won the twentieth century?
World War II did not merely destroy Germany and Japan. It reorganised the world. It left Europe shattered, Britain indebted, America indebted and militarised, Eastern Europe under communist domination, and the newly created United Nations positioned as the institutional centre of a managed global order.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-hidden-history-of-world-war-ii-and-the-system-it-created/