In the original work, the Men of the West are the good guys. The Easterlings are the bad guys.

I never like this 2 movies as he romanticize the subject and only paint Japanese as the victims of WW2.

Grave of the Fireflies is one of the saddest movie ever made but if you think further he made a movie about suffering of Japanese but the rest of the world suffers even worst than Japanese. It is hypocritical for him to criticize American movies but he himself did the same thing where he made one side as victim but ignoring others as victims too.

Wind Rises is worst. He made the man who invented Zero, a pure war machine into some sort of pacifist. Nobody who create war machine can claim themselves as pacifists later. He received money for his creation.

Because art has meaning, sometimes intentionally so on the part of the creator.

I don't think artists try to please everyone. In fact, artists often deliberately try to offend some parties.

Just speaking in general. I just don't think the point of art is to please everyone. Art is often most effective when someone is offended.

The other race of men that are ally under Sauron such as the Easterling and other barbarians (ones who ride the elephant).
Anyway Hayao Miyazaki view is flawed imo.