I agree with this on the role of the UN. America does not need the UN to go to war. A telling point is that the author describes the United Nations as “united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal”. It is the underlying inequality of nations that is what gets everyone’s goat in Europe and creates that kind of ineffectual, spluttering anti–Americanism. France et al don’t like the feeling that world events are moving precipitously forward and their role is marginal.