Trojan Shipping: Guarantee of another Republican-enabled Strike on Our Homeland.

Dronophobia 

 A convoy of trucks barrels along a Soviet-era highway heading deep into the Russian hinterland, one rig looking pretty much like any other. But one of them has a specialized load. When it separates from the pack as they head to their respective destinations, it barrels along for a thousand kilometers before pulling to a stop outside the hangar where Russia parks its nuclear-capable warplanes.

In the gathering dusk the muted whirr of motors is heard as the roof of the rig is retracted and a swarm of UAV’s, undetected by radar, rises into the darkening sky, overflies the fences, and proceeds to pound the Russian jets, worth a billion rubles, into rubble.

On the sleepy shores of the San Francisco Bay, Oakland’s port has closed after unloading its last container ship for the day. The employees have gone and security is dozing in front of their CCTV displays as the whirring of servo motors is drowned out by the freeway traffic’s generously supplied white noise.

As in the case of the semi’s in Russia, the UAV’s rise into the night sky unnoticed as they are remotely guided toward their Silicon Valley targets.

Thus does a DOD-developed technology, having already been used to incinerate billions of dollars in US assets in the gulf, (assets that would have had a chance against Iran’s drones but for the fact that the US spurned Ukraine’s offer for assistance) yet again get deployed while US defense forces sit prepared for last century’s War and the weapons developed by their own War Department swoop out of the shadows to destroy one of the key industries fueling America’s hi-tech, criminally insane Wehrmacht.

The stealth fighters that cost billions of US taxpayer dollars have been completely outclassed by a swarm of cheap drones, (thousands of which can be robofactured for millions of dollars less than the cost of a single Stealth jet) and stealthily deployed on container ships brought into ports anywhere in the world. No TSA wand can protect us against our own tech’s assassination squads. Well, except a drone defense… which, despite a Trillion Dollar War Department budget, we simply don’t have.

Perhaps Trojan Shipping should consider a name change.