The early James Bond films were pure propaganda made during the Cold War when Communists were ‘the baddies’ and the west ‘the goodies’. When the USSR collapsed the USA became the world superpower. Bonds ‘new enemies’ were now ‘terrorists’.

In Skyfall (2015) the plot involves a rogue politician taking over the west’s intelligence agencies. We get for the very first time a mention of the ‘9 eyes’, based on the very real 5 eyes, whose existence until 2010 was an ‘official secret’ no one could disclose.

The Director Sam Mendez, said: ‘…. The main plot of Skyfall … reflected the real-world presence of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks’…. “We can’t pretend anymore that MI5 and MI6 are unquestionably the good guys in the way that you could when Bond was at the height of the Cold War,” Mendes says. “The general public — myself included — feel that they are actually spying on us, not just people who deserve to be spied on. … Bond is the old-school way of doing things ……”

Julian Assange demonstrated that security can be breached that can be dangerous for states IF it is copied by ‘baddies’. The CIA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, later exposed that they could tap into smartphones and enable drone assassinations on a wholesale basis. What would happen if the ‘baddies’ – like ‘Spectre’ - copied this? This new reality became woven into the drama of a new James Bond.

As we enter another era of international conflict essentially stimulated by the USA wanting to hang onto its global dominance we have turned full circle. James Bond will need to be recreated yet again to stand for ‘western values’ against a new global enemy.

In the last Bond movie ‘No time to die’ the use of bio-labs to manufacture a biological weapon that can target ethnic groups was explored. Move from science fiction and James Bond to science fact. It is known that the US had established numerous biolabs in Ukraine. Ukraine (allegedly with the help of MI6) recently assassinated the leading Russian authority on Biological warfare – General Kirillov, who had exposed what the biolabs were doing.

The script writers for James Bond and other Spy movies have their ears to the ground – as did the creator of the Bond cult, Ian Fleming – himself a one-time MI6 agent. The problem they have is that in ‘No time to die’ the baddies were cultivating biological weapons – that have now proved to be ones pursued by the USA! Presenting them as the goodies against the evil Chinese and Russians just got a wee bit harder.

Let’s see what a reincarnated James Bond comes up with. One thing’s for certain – ‘he’ (or she) will have to be on the right side – that is, the USA and the UK. A James Bond who was on the side of Russia and China is simply too horrendous to accept. After all, aren’t we the ‘good guys’?