OTTAWA: Provocateur Michael Moore is back after a six-year absence with a new documentary film, “Where to Invade Next,” pitching once again socialist ideals put to the test abroad to his fellow countrymen.

The film premiered at the Toronto film festival.

Based on its title, it was initially thought to be an indictment of America’s military zeal.

But the movie actually delves very little into US military misadventures abroad.

Instead, Moore uses the term “invasion” to mean plundering other nations’ notions of happy workers, good education, humane prisons and empowered women.

He then presents these as examples of how life should be in the United States.

“I hope nobody will be mad at me, and (audiences will) appreciate the prankish nature of it all,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

“All the countries that don’t spend 60 percent of their economy on so-called defense, spend the money on their people.

“So in a way, the perpetual war, the military industrial complex has resulted in the America we now have where we are not number one in probably anything anymore.”

The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker places himself in the action, as a pseudo conqueror who plants the American flag wherever he goes, baffling onlookers.

The film is unlikely to win over Moore’s detractors but got a few laughs from Toronto audiences.

The real rub, however, comes at the end, when Moore reveals that the ideas implemented by these countries originally came from America, but never really took off there — such as an equal-rights amendment to Tunisia’s constitution.

“Where To Invade Next” is Moore’s first film since “Capitalism: A Love Story” in 2009 in which he assesses a culture of greed on Wall Street that led to the global financial crisis.