Oh Dear!
Don't you understand?
Real armies of occupation don’t any longer use soldiers with backpacks and guns to cross borders.
That’s only for backward looking states with too many tanks, and too many flame-throwers and too many rockets.
Occupation and conquest of new territories happens in a completely different way these days.
Haven’t you seen?
Haven’t you noticed?
Oh dear!
Well, you missed it.
It’s happened.
Your country and all you thought it stood for, all you thought it represented, has been lost to a much less noisy force.
Not a single tank has rolled up the road, not a single flame thrower has incinerated your family.
But everything you hold dear has been lost to a quiet army of…wait for it… a quiet army of manufacturing and supply.
Yes, you’ve bought it.
You’ve paid for the occupation every time you purchased something.
Every time you were pleased to get a bargain, thrilled to have it delivered to your door within hours, charmed by the beautiful packaging. And only slightly amused by the stamp—“Made in China’.
On every occasion you have welcomed the invader in.
Didn’t you start to wonder? Even when the first language in the instruction book wasn’t English?
Oh dear!
You missed it!
All the time you were enjoying your purchase, you missed it!
And now you can’t change it, or avoid it, or find an alternative to it.
No.
It’s too late.
Oh dear!