...or perhaps it's the other way round, and someone, maybe the Americans, maybe the Japanese, have been drafting cephalopods into their navy and training them to destroy the oil resources around the disputed islands in the huge swath of ocean that China coincidentally claims is its inalienable sovereign territory. Unfortunately for them, the Chinese, prepared for just such a situation, have caught and killed these élite squid bombers and now serve them in restaurants in a gesture of savage triumphalism that can only increase tensions in the region. God help us all.