i think theyre aware, but choosing to pander to chuds who are not, because they saw too many "liberty prime so based lolol gommubism get rekt" memes crop up, so they decided to lean into that.

3 is also nowhere near as self aware as the originals, but its pretty apparent they at least tried in that one

I like to think that Nick/Nora are the power armor soldier in the FMV intro of Fallout I that shoots the Canadian prisoner in the head, then laughs about it and waves for the camera.