Honestly to me Sargon falls into the weird section that I find alot of middle age and up people in the uk politically, They live in a contradictory hypocritical world where they love liberty, freedom and other enlightenment values but also still love the empire. The amount of them I find that will hate china for how it acts in Africa, with it bribing local governments to get access to resources, build some infrastructure in return for exclusive rights to mine some rare minerals, yet view Britains actions in India as completely fine because we gave them an education system and get mad if those nations critic what the empire did. Many would turn facist or imperialist if given the chance because of some weird view that Britain was a "fair empire" that did everything above board. If I break into your house, cut off your leg and steal your money it doesn't make it morally right if I teach your kid the alphabet, Just because some good came out of empire doesn't retro-activly justify them doing it, especially when most of the things the empire gave were in its own interest not philanthropism.
He also falls heavily into the issue that plagues brexit, the "just need to roll up our sleeves and use common sense" which people try to apply to everything but often causes way more issues as complex border issues like the NI border have no common sense average joe on the street solution. I was always fine with leave I just dislike how nearly everyone who is hard brexit act like international politics is a simple game. All we get are basic slogans from the likes of sargon of "brexit means brexit" and "take back control" which sound nice but dont tell us what the plan is for the Gibraltar/Spain or the NI border. We wont get anyform of brexit until someone actually makes a plan that isnt stand there, do nothing and hope eu just caves and gives full access for nothing. By this point we could have had all the ports prepped, started the training of the thousands of new customs staff that will be required (and take atleast 1-2 years to train) and actually have prepped for the no deal. But no lets just say empty slogans and believe that just because something sounds "common sense" means that its going to work and constantly talking about "rolling up sleeves" and "blitz spirit" after the fact actually get things done.