The Chuds found this so I'll point out what's blaringly obvious to anyone who loves this movie and has media literacy above that of a 12 year old. The humans and the bugs are ultimately not that different, especially by the end. Your defenses - the bugs are worse, the bugs started it - do not withstand a look at the text. The teacher at the beginning (Rue McClanahan from Golden Girls lol) expresses admiration for the bugs - they're selfless, brave, don't know about death, collectivist. Denise Richards raises a reasonable objection, that humans have created art, and she laughs at the idea. Even if the bugs sent the asteroid, the humans end up using Horten Ho 229s to bomb entire planets. Neil Patrick Harris uses the same power as the brainbug - he's psychically guiding subordinates through the tunnels. The mobile infantry loses individuation and will power and exist only to die and kill, like the soldier bugs. Then, at the end, the humans do the exact same thing the brain bug - they penetrate the brain of the brainbug with a symbolic phallus to learn how it fights to make its "race" easier to kill. The movie is not "fascism is kind of cool when it's against genocidal bugs" because the government seen here is incompetent, ideologically deranged, helped start the war. The movie is "fascists, even if they come up against literal bugs, end up transforming dumb sexy Dawson's Creek kids into bugs."

Something weird I realized when finishing a re-read of The Iliad. I actually believe a lot of the fight scenes. Even if they aren't all literally depictions of actual fights between Trojans and Achaeans, they're insanely detailed and believable, and the epic maintains some memory of actual bronze age weapons and armor that would have been very foreign in Homer's world. I think there's a good chance the West Anatolian bardic tradition that give rise to the epics was more likely to remember someone getting a spear in the brain or a weird big shield than, say, the existence of the Hittite Empire or that the Phrygians weren't around then.