The United States government today called on Walt Disney Pictures to delay or cancel the release of “Muppets Most Wanted” on national security grounds. Or at least, it should have. Not only might this movie annoy Russia, with whom the American government is already nose-to-nose over Crimea, but it could also cause any European allies being courted by President Obama to unfriend him and the rest of the country.
The film, a music-filled follow-up to the 2011 hit “The Muppets,” lands poor Kermit in a gulag in Siberia, which is depicted just as unflatteringly as gulags in Siberia always are. Vladimir V. Putin is unlikely to be amused. But the real concern, in terms of America’s international relations, is its sly skewering of our European allies, whose work habits, vacation-taking and such are mocked relentlessly.
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