The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
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Love how he just suddenly knows how to fly an old Soviet aircraft better than people trained in it and equipped with Su-57s
The plane they stole was an F-14 Tomcat which is an American plane, I think it was the primary jet in the original movie. After a brief google search the Iran connection may be stronger than I thought, I guess the US gave a bunch to the Shah before the revolution and Iran continues to operate them. So the Su-57 is the only thing making me think not Iran since they're Russian and they don't have very many.
At no point did anyone in the movie question the fact that the people they were fighting had American planes?
Nope lol But hey, cool jets! Don't think about the consequences of US imperialism.
A WW2 movie, but the Nazis are all driving Ford trucks and no one questions it
That did happen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_V-3000-Serie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Germany#Ford-Werke_AG_later_Ford-Werke_GmbH
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