the andor podcast on A More Civilized Age keeps seeing it through the lens of the US Occupation of Iraq, when it's literally juxtaposing that with the ISB being both a colonial equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security/ICE, and the methamphetamine-popping SS in Nazi Germany. US Occupation of Iraq too, but a lot of the people leading that became DHS bigwigs and the... clinical chillness is different than the almost party atmosphere of the military administration of the Iraq occupation in comparison.
it's making comparisons and just going over peoples heads, no wonder Disney allowed it to air