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moldbug · 2012-03-22 · Original thread
You mean "the Americans" and "American" respectively.

Here's a somewhat hagiographic but generally accurate work on the American origin of all present "European" institutions:

http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Century-Generations-Extraordi...

TL;DR: all "European" institutions were designed and remain supervised by EUR at State. This should only surprise people who think the Warsaw Pact was in some sense Polish.