Starship Troopers really shows the issue with writing fiction that's political and meant partially as propaganda - in this case, it was meant to satirize - but ultimately it failed to properly do so, because the characters were too likeable; their choices, given who they were, made sense and weren't actually bad; and such society, especially in such circumstances, made sense.

I was looking through it rn and saw something I haven't before: WaPo reviewed it at the time and couldn't tell whether "...he's sending up the Third Reich or in love with it," and stated: "The streets are clean, lawns are mowed and even black folks look Aryan here in Mister Nietzsche's Neighborhood."

The director himself complained: "We were accused ... of being neo-Nazis! ... They couldn't see that all I have done is ironically create a fascist utopia."