If you don’t understand that the intention was to show that there is no difference between us and those we are fighting, you need to take a media literacy course. The direct cut in this case, without inflection, is meant to link the two. Not just in terms of motivation, which is manifest, but also purpose.
Boy, that one is sure in the eye of the beholder.
My take away from that scene not that thee was moral equivalence, but that that this is not only an ideological conflict but also a blood-feud, and likely our children and theirs will be still be fighting it a generation hence.
But it doesn’t necessarily mean to link the two as identical on all levels. The obvious link, that we and they have the same goal of killing every last member of the opposition, doesn’t necessarily link the motivations. And motivations are the difference in wars between the good guys and the bad guys. The Axis and the Allies had the same goals, but for different reasons, and the reasons are why the Allies were the good guys. Same thing in the WOT, they want to kill us because we’re not them, we want to kill them because if we don’t they’ll kill us. There’s nothing wrong with a movie linking the two and reminding audiences this is a fight to the finish.