Something I thought of recently after a few weird interviews, as usual, with George. Two separate incidences:

George insisted: “The purpose of Star Wars was – it was during the Vietnam War, I was going to do Apocalypse Now and I couldn’t do it. So, I took a lot of the ideas and put them into this movie."

“When I did it,” Lucas replied, “they were Viet Cong.”

Except the whole of Star Wars was WW2 in space. The Imperial uniforms. The Dam Busters dialogue. The cutting of war footage into the temp version without finished special effects. The literal stormtroopers. Why the hell is he trying to say now it was always a USA in Vietnam analogue?