Which is hilarious because they because they actually think Fallout is patriotic.
Think of Showa American Story, except with more ruins and desolation. I would model it after FO3, where the main story isn't particularly important and the focus is on exploration and atmosphere.
I have a conspiracy theory regarding the canonical Fallout story:
After a second playthrough of FO4 whilst completely ignoring the story missions, I began to see a different world to the one painted by official canon. Observations such as Chinese submarines being able to just sail into Boston harbor, and the unexploded air dropped megaton class nuclear bombs in FO3 and NV indicated that US conventional forces were totally annihilated prior to the nuclear phase of the war. That the most common things in the wasteland were weapons, ammunition, drugs / medicine suggested a level of standardized manufacturing far beyond the capabilities visibly apparent in the wasteland; in fact, it is more likely the result of an external supply chain.
Which got me thinking how this would all tie together:
A conventionally defeated USA resorted to nuclear blackmail via attempting limited strikes to give the world a taste of the possibility of nuclear holocaust once it saw the war was unwinnable, however it botched the move and was punitively struck by the remaining members of the UN. Somehow the US nuclear arsenal was not able to be fully utilized; whether from sabotage, refusal of orders or just plain dysfunctional incompetence of an empire on its last legs, however the intention was clear and triggered a MAD response from Russia and China. While this reset the US to the stone age again, the rest of the world was comparatively unscathed, only suffering 'a scratch' here and there, and was able to rebuild in the 200 years following. The US, on the other hand, was weighed down by total devastation across country and society, with even the protective measures of the vaults being cynically devised experiments designed to extract and stretch rather than protect its inhabitants.
The present day Fallout setting (200 years into the future) paints a radioactive dustbowl America used by the rest of the world as a mine for valuable genetic data and medical experimentation, using local outfits such as the BOS as the miners, in exchange for outdated surplus arms, ammunition, medical supplies and drugs for a little bit of side profit. The non existent contact a regular wastelander had with the outside world meant that the internal propaganda of the US just before annihilation stuck as the truth, with no way of being disproven. The battles between factions were in reality just cartel wars over who controls the genetic specimen and drug distribution trade, whilst the actions of the protagonists throughout the Fallout series were just the adventures of misinformed bumpkins.
