Friday question -- why is Germany submitting to NATO's demand that it join the anti-Russia war drive? A part of the answer can be found in history, how Mackinder's geopolitical doctrine, designed to protect the supremacy of the British empire, led to two world wars and the Cold War in the 20th century, and threatens to plunge us into World War III today. The story of how Russia and Germany attempted to outflank the British, with the Rapallo Treaty signed on April 16, 1922, may provide some insight into the cowardly submission by Germany to Anglo-American pressure today. For more on this story, see: On the 100th Anniversary of the Rapallo Treaty, April 16