Harkonnens as the Russians and Atreides as NATO?

[Provolution]

Harkonnens as the Russians and Atreides as the EU?

Anyone here who has seen the Dune Movie, and think of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his men as representing the Russians, whereas Duke Leto Atreides represent the EU?

Would Emperor Shaddam IV be the USA then? Fremen as proxy states?

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

That would mean that the United States and the Russians are working together to destroy the EU, right?

 

[Provolution]

Not quite. Emperor Shaddam IV only wants to play out the EU and the Russians against each other, in order to dominate the flow of the spice.

 

[red_elk]

Shaddam Husshein?

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

Ja, and Mordor was depicture of USSR, and Isengard was Axis Germany.

 

[mangxema]

That would not bode well for the EU or the US.

 

[Defiant47]

I have no idea what he's talking about but

That would mean that the United States and the Russians are working together to destroy the EU, right?

 

[Perfection]

DUDE, you can't reference Dune unless you've read the book, everyone knows that movies don't count.

 

[Nylan]

Harkonnens as the Russians and Atreides as the EU?

Anyone here who has seen the Dune Movie, and think of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his men as representing the Russians, whereas Duke Leto Atreides represent the EU?

Would Emperor Shaddam IV be the USA then? Fremen as proxy states?

Fighting over oil control? Maybe if you stretch it.

In any other terms? No, not really. The EU isn't unified, the Russians don't have heart plugs. etc.

 

[woody60707]

Harkonnens as the Russians and Atreides as the EU?

Anyone here who has seen the Dune Movie, and think of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his men as representing the Russians, whereas Duke Leto Atreides represent the EU?

Would Emperor Shaddam IV be the USA then? Fremen as proxy states?

MOVIE!!!!! The hell with you man, the hell I say!

 

[Nike Zeus]

Spice does sort of parallel oil, in that it is essential for transport, and comes from an otherwise worthless desert...

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I thought America invaded a country to take control of the spice...

 

[Nylan]

I thought America invaded a country to take control of the spice...

Yeah, because it makes so much more sense to invade another country for oil than to drill the oil on our own land.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Yeah, because it makes so much more sense to invade another country for oil than to drill the oil on our own land.

Dear god it was a joke. But if you want to get serious, Iraq is like an adolescent boy having a wet dream; the stuff practically just pumps itself in your sleep. America's is like a 60 year old man holding hundreds of dollars worth of Viagra saying "work dammit!"

To the OP, I think that the Dune analogy just doesn't work.

 

[Nylan]

Dear god it was a joke.

I know Hope I didn't come off too strong.

But if you want to get serious, Iraq is like an adolescent boy having a wet dream; the stuff practically just pumps itself in your sleep. America's is like a 60 year old man holding hundreds of dollars worth of Viagra saying "work dammit!"

...not even gonna comment

 

[kalif]

what? i used to think that the russkies already were the klingons?

 

[Gelion]

Harkonnens as the Russians and Atreides as the EU?

Anyone here who has seen the Dune Movie, and think of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his men as representing the Russians, whereas Duke Leto Atreides represent the EU?

Would Emperor Shaddam IV be the USA then? Fremen as proxy states?

Yes in the movie. In reality they are all Ordos.

 

[Grisu]

so who's Leto exactly? poor sod....

and the EU's son's going to rise as the leader of the proxy states and bring a bloody jihad to the world, eventually dominating pretty much all of it?

 

[Provolution]

Hhaha, EU has a wide open immigration policy, that is how the Jihad starts

 

[Grisu]

but it has to be led by one of our own...the heir to the to-be-murdered Leto