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Also, uh, try walking out of bounds. What does that tell you?

The Automatons are the direct descendants of the cyborgs, whom Super Earth keeps enslaved on Cyberstan, for the crime of disagreeing with the government.

They are also depicted in Black-Red-White pattern, with skulls on their heads, are deemed to be "socialists" by the government, and are rebuilding coming off of a punishing defeat, sound familiar?

There is a deliberate series of conflicting points of satire in the game precisely to make it so you can read it multiple ways.

Spacetravel is fueled by bugblood (element 710, or “oil” upside down) which the government actively “farms” by letting them rampage freely around civilian worlds, for the benefit of the homeworld. They likely engineered the terminids to increase the 710 production, making them more aggressive.

Which is a very on the nose parody of the US foreign policy regarding the middle east, and the US crucially isn't a military dictatorship.

Every dead helldiver is a direct result of the actions of the government.

Every dead soldier always is, doesn't make their cause automatically unworthy. Obviously in this case it is, that's the joke, but that's not an argument in itself.

Also I know plenty of dead helldivers who caused it to themselves, but I digress.

My point is, the game is political satire, but it doesn't have a single valid interpretation. Nothing does, but this does even less than usual.

It satirizes fascism, but also liberalism, it satirizes those who look at an oppressed group and can't see their current evil behaviour because of their oppressed path, it satirizes those who see conspiracies everywhere but in plain sight, I'm sure there's jabs at communism too (or maybe that was just twitter lefties identifying with bugs again...)

There's a lot of variety because it's not some garbage propaganda piece, but an actually well made piece of satire and, as such, it should make you think not tell you what you ought to think.