No, the film lies to you repeatedly. Kinda the point of the film really.
You see this is where your argument really loses me. If you just wanted to say "Director's intent was the Feds were the bad guys", fine. I could at least understand that. I wouldn't agree that's the only interpretation, again death of the author, but that would be internally consistent. But you seem to want to have your cake and eat it too.
Like if you argued the "verse" of Starship Troopers was just a propaganda movie that painted the humans as good guys to justify the out of universe war, that would be fine. Or if you wanted to point out inconsistencies with the world building or plot leading to conclusions not originally intended that would also be fine. But you want to only selectively analysis the film when it suits your purposes just like you flip-flop between hard minimalist to rampant speculation based entirely what suits your argument in that moment.
You hyper fixate on your disbelief the Arachnids have the capability to target other worlds as "proof" of your false flag, ignoring how that's not how proof works, while flat out refusing to acknowledge the plethora of evidence the Federation neither could nor would attempt such a level of deception over its citizens. You dismiss the Arachnids ability to colonize other worlds because they can only shoot' Their spoors into space" while ignore the context of that was in relation to human interstellar travel. You also ignore the fact their species has apparently been specifically evolving for millions of years in comparison to humanity meaning even if they were limited to STL speeds in a real world universe they likely could have colonized countless planets by the "present".
This is on top of shifting the burden of proof at every opportunity which is just annoying.
You are not interested in a serious discussion or alternative viewpoints to which I can only say one thing:
The Terran Federation did nothing wrong and I will fucking die on that hill.
his is the bright and optimistic future for humanity.
That was beautiful! *Sheds manly tear*
But when the first Sky Marshals plan ends in a disaster he just accepts his fuck up and steps down. That is like the exact opposite of a fascist state.
Which really goes to show you how much Paul Verhoeven screwed the pooch and why
@ThatZenoGuy argument amounts to "ignore everything in the film except what supports my position".
For "obvious" badguys, the Federation's actions are almost unanimously good. There's at least some level of representative government, some semblance of a free press ect to the point if they literally had done the same Starship Trooper film but replaced the Nazi/Soviet uniforms and imagery I don't think anyone would have remotely guessed the film was about facism.