For generations, millions of Star Wars fans have thought they were watching a good ol’ fashioned space opera. In fact, they’ve received a decades-long primer in geopolitics, warfare, and the tenets of leadership. 	This is on display again in the latest and final movie of the nine-film franchise, The Rise of Skywalker.

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