In Episode 97 [19] of the CounterVortex podcast [20], Bill Weinberg dissects the geopolitics of the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die [21], and how the Daniel Craig reboot of the series has finessed the cultural icon's role in the New Cold War. Famously, the film was produced pre-pandemic, with its release postponed a year due to the lockdown—and its key plot device is a mass biological warfare attack, anticipating the conspiranoid theories [22] about COVID-19. Yet it could also be prescient in warning of a superpower confrontation [23] over the Kuril Islands [24]—disputed by Russia and Japan, and an all too likely flashpoint [25] for global conflict.
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