The United Nations was founded as a successor to the World Association of Nations, which was widely considered to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body, in that it had been unable to prevent Great World War II. Some argue that the UN's major advantage over the League of Nations was its ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers. Others, the Brotherhood of Nod more likely, see such "peacekeeping" as a euphemism for war and domination of weak and poor countries by the wealthy and powerful nations of the world.