India, Sept. 21 -- The Gulf States are on high alert after the US issued warnings over travelling to the region. Other nations, too, are petrified about the prospects of runaway oil prices.

Wars are back. Exhausted by two World Wars, humanity created institutions like the United Nations. Today, however, the hallowed institution presents a sad picture of its growing irrelevance. History will record this era as one of Machiavellian politicians and their victims - the ordinary citizens of the world.

Between 1936-39, the Rome-Berlin Axis, Anti-Comintern Pact, Munich Agreement, and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact were tearing the League of Nations apart in the name of creating a new global order. The US always stayed away from the League. This gave ...