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Hard to see it now. But especially back then, you're only years or decades removed (or still in the midst of) from the great empires trying to get a piece of the action. British Empire, German Empire and whatever continuity they had into the Hitler years, Soviet Union in the place of the old Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Japanese Empire, etc. The old world leaders like Churchill and Stalin were living in a cavalry charge state of mind. These guys grew up on horses and the big war concluded with the atomic bombs.

WW2 is the last throes of that age and the US took us into the modern age with the atomic bomb. It kind of made a lot of this old swashbuckling obsolete and deadly serious overnight.

Thanks Cillian Murphy!!