The fact the Galactic Empire is an allegory of first world imperialism, particularly USAmerican imperialism, conveniently goes over some of you all's heads, doesn’t it? Lucas himself said he was criticising Nixon’s foreign policies in the OT, and the political themes present in both the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy cannot be divorced from the criticism of USAmerican imperialism and neocolonialism.
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