>>>>so what is the difference?
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>>>>The difference is that some people use the UN as a moralist figleaf to do exactly what they do or don't want to do. Combined with an absolute veto for those who need it least and an increasing number of nations who regard defiance of the UN as a moral action, it cannot hope to succeed.
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>>>If you read some of the articles out there today, focus has shifted almost entirely off of the UN and onto the EU.
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>>Did you mean that the way you wrote it or did you mean off NATO and onto the EU?
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>off NATO and onto the EU? :o)

I thought that was what you meant.