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I always liked the Plinkett review of Crystal Skull for this reason. Stoklasa points out that both sides were doing what they believed would allow their ideology to win out in the Cold War.
He points out that the Soviet's actions in the movie basically mirror the American's, especially when Indiana Jones is actually harassed by the FBI for allegedly being a spy.
He points out that the scariness of a an alien mind control device is kind of lessened when one of the first things we see in the film is a America's superweapon; an atomic bomb.
The lack of real conflict and consequences hurts the movie.
There's also something of a "fuck you" about Americans making a film about the Soviets doing mind control doing the Cold War.
"Only we get to do that"
Most American propaganda about other places is more accurate when inverted. The reason they're so good at coming up with lies is because they just take whatever they're doing or have done and say another country is actually doing that.