League of Nations

The Egypt upheaval has once again highlighted that the world, or at least the league of powerful nations consisting primarily of US, Western Europe and some other wealthy and powerful countries is an important stakeholder, or at least considers itself to be one, in the politics of the third world countries, and is definitely concerned about what kind of political system is being followed, whether there is democracy? and if there is an authoritarian political system then in that case who gets to be in power? Let's get real, given a "choice" they would definitely want a "friendly" guy who can act in their interest if need be, to head the respective governments in just about every third world country they can.
It's difficult to say how much influence this "outside" community wields over the politics in third world countries, may be it's different in each country, and could lie somewhere between absolute control and no control at all for each of them. Where does India stands? Well, any guess is as good as any other.
Having said that, we may "like" to think of ourselves as an absolute sovereign republic which doesn't let any one, including Uncle Sam, to have any say whatsoever in how we form our government. Is that wishful thinking? may be may be not. But let's not live under the impression that it's not being tried. We can't afford to let go of our sovereign rights or drop our guard can we?