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If only George Lucas had some interview where he exposes what inspired him to write the Emipire like such...
I can see how a scifi author taking notes from real life to adapt to fiction changes real life to perfectly match that fiction.
May George have mercy on our souls. /sarcasm
The first three movies are Vietnam. The Empire was America. He didn't change reality. He wrote about it.
The war in Vietnam started with French troops fighting alongside resistance to a dictatorship, the dictatorship which had launched all out war against south Vietnamese towns and villages in 1968, ultimately they failed and the US refused to withdraw from the war for many more years as a result of the incompetent Nixon administration.
Even if America had won that war, it's questionable whether you could consider it an Empire, because USA would have to then control Vietnam after liberating it from said dictatorship.
But back to your claim that the USA is the Empire in the Star Wars movies, what the fuck does that make the Viet Cong? Princess Leia?
The rebels are Viet Cong. This is from a famous interview with Lucas.