One of my biggest gripes is No Russian, not because you get to murder civilians but because of how Russia responded. Why launch a suicide invasion on the largest imperial state in the world.
Because USians have a victim complex and salivate at the idea of being invaded by one of the “bad guys”. It’s projection; the West wants to pretend other countries will do to us what we do to them in order to justify all the heinous shit we’ve ever done. Red Dawn, the inspiration for the CoD Russian invasion, is the perfect example of it.
Oh, it most certainly is. Every game is centered around glorifying the US and its allies. Even when they try to be nuanced, showing some kind of gray area, it’s completely overshadowed by how righteous the West is and how bad our enemies are. The closest they can ever come is saying “both sides bad”. Doesn’t matter if it’s showing the Red Army as evil and/or incompetent butchers in WWII (in CoD:2, they just use the same wretched tropes and writing from that propaganda film, Enemy at the Gates, including the Red Army being poorly equipped and NKVD officers giving speeches while executing fleeing soldiers), or if it’s justifying drone strikes and torture against rebels in the Global South (the Modern Warfare series is absolutely polluted with this). Cherry on top is the Black Ops series, which literally played up propaganda of Soviet brainwashing, sleeper agents, and other crazy shit that never happened but is just designed to justify our horrible involvement in Cuba, Vietnam, and anywhere else.
The entire series is just designed to glorify our own forces and justify our wars with enemies. Best show of nuance they have is in an effort to humanize the enemy by making it seem like it’s only their evil governments that are the bad guys, the regular citizens just wanna be like us. It’s the same with Battlefield, and probably most other military franchises in the West.
One of my biggest gripes is No Russian, not because you get to murder civilians but because of how Russia responded. Why launch a suicide invasion on the largest imperial state in the world.
Because USians have a victim complex and salivate at the idea of being invaded by one of the “bad guys”. It’s projection; the West wants to pretend other countries will do to us what we do to them in order to justify all the heinous shit we’ve ever done. Red Dawn, the inspiration for the CoD Russian invasion, is the perfect example of it.
Yeah after thinking abiut this mission for a while I am convinced CoD is propaganda.
Oh, it most certainly is. Every game is centered around glorifying the US and its allies. Even when they try to be nuanced, showing some kind of gray area, it’s completely overshadowed by how righteous the West is and how bad our enemies are. The closest they can ever come is saying “both sides bad”. Doesn’t matter if it’s showing the Red Army as evil and/or incompetent butchers in WWII (in CoD:2, they just use the same wretched tropes and writing from that propaganda film, Enemy at the Gates, including the Red Army being poorly equipped and NKVD officers giving speeches while executing fleeing soldiers), or if it’s justifying drone strikes and torture against rebels in the Global South (the Modern Warfare series is absolutely polluted with this). Cherry on top is the Black Ops series, which literally played up propaganda of Soviet brainwashing, sleeper agents, and other crazy shit that never happened but is just designed to justify our horrible involvement in Cuba, Vietnam, and anywhere else.
The entire series is just designed to glorify our own forces and justify our wars with enemies. Best show of nuance they have is in an effort to humanize the enemy by making it seem like it’s only their evil governments that are the bad guys, the regular citizens just wanna be like us. It’s the same with Battlefield, and probably most other military franchises in the West.
Their invasion of the US actually goes pretty well all things considered.
If only a protagonist wasn’t there.
Haven’t played MW so idk what to say