Do you remember when James Bond villains such as Dr No or Goldfinger, or, well every one of them really, had plans for total world domination?
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Invariably they had some cunning scheme about inserting a microchip (or radio control device .... simpler days) into all the Intercontinental and air defence missiles, tanks, planes and computers in NATO, or the continental US, and then threatening to turn them off, thus leaving said countries vulnerable to a take over by their enemies, such as China or the USSR, or even SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) ... or was that SMERSH (СМЕРШ)?
Well in another of those fiction becomes reality (well almost) moments, the US Congress has discovered that major areas of the US defence industry have been sourcing machine and computer parts from the 'fake' market ..... and that most of these fake parts came from Red China (as well as Europe).
So could there be someone secreted deep in the bowels of the forbidden Palace, who has a small remote control, one touch of which renders all US military might inoperable? Will the Yellow Peril of Edwardian fears, rise and conquer?
Will the final epitaph be "and that's how the war was won Chairman Ziu, with all their weapons systems disabled, total surrender was inevitable!" ... makes a good final few lines on the last James Bond book.
So could there be someone secreted deep in the bowels of the forbidden Palace, who has a small remote control, one touch of which renders all US military might inoperable? Will the Yellow Peril of Edwardian fears, rise and conquer?
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| The Traditional View Of The 'Yellow Peril' |
Will the final epitaph be "and that's how the war was won Chairman Ziu, with all their weapons systems disabled, total surrender was inevitable!" ... makes a good final few lines on the last James Bond book.
Thems were the days. You knew who your villains were back then, and unlike now it wasn't your next door neighbour.
ReplyDeleteBut like you say 'simpler days.'
We delight in finding new 'villains' for every generation. Thanks for the comment.
DeleteMy how the world has changed in the last decade. Now we really know that Russia and China really are our enemies, and that we don't have to invent new enemies after all (Phew!) as our old ones are still here one hundred years later.
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