Big boss literally creates his own country for soldiers that have been abandoned by their countries because their government doesn't care about them once they've served their purpose.
Didn't the first game have actual footage of castle bravo?
Edit: can't find evidence to confirm but I'm pretty sure THAT was the nuclear test they showed in the game.
I hate chuds, MGS is a fantastic game. If I wanted to play a game about sneaking around in a box I could do that in a box I'd play those hide and seek games on OW2
A good chunk of both MGS 1+2's cut scenes are stock footage from the military. The core theme of 1 is about the government doing nefarious testing on special forces soldiers to make them in the image of history's greatest mercenary then they revolt and hold washington hostage with a nuclear mech.
You have to be thicker than a bowl of oatmeal not to pick up on the politics MGS was putting down. The game was influential in a young me getting into politics because I was intrigued by nuclear weapons and their implications, I learned about the START Treaty from this game.
I learned about the existence of DARPA from this game, it really is hard to understand how people could just think this game was just about a guy sneaking around in a box.