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One of the good things to come out of Frank Miller's Batman was Superman getting called out for being a puppet of the US government. In The Dark Night Returns, Batman goes as far as to build power armor to help him fight and kill Superman.
Written by a man who famously hates the character and used Batman to make a point of making Superman look bad. It's considered to be one of the worst written versions of Superman of all-time by fans. Superman has, in various incarnations, had some associations with the US government, but usually it's been writers shilling or when he was being explicitly written as a flag-waving patriot in the WWII era comics. The vast majority of his existence has been one that is frequently at odds with the military and US government policy. There are still some writers that will pander to the military, but those are few and far in between and always cringe levels of writing.