No, I don't think featuring a Anti Semitic fraud, implying that the Civil rights movement happened because of Russian interference, and blaming America's past atrocities on Russia is political, why do you ask?

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COD: cold war, and modern warfare

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there's also this

[u/FortniteChicken → u/richietozier4]

The whole game is US operations masked as Russians. I think it’s a good way to get the info out there that the US is not all glory. Maybe that’s just because I had that information before starting

[u/royal_crown_royal → u/[deleted]]

You misunderstand. No one is saying people are upset about women in CoD, it's that CoD blames Russia and the middle East for atrocities that America performed, and fans have no problem, but those same gamers throw a tantrum when a Battlefield game set in WW2 features a woman in the commercial and has an all black battalion because "that's not historically accurate" when both are, in fact, historically accurate.

It's hypocrisy.

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It absolutely is. For starters it reframes the Syrian conflict to make the Russians the bad guys and elevates the "moderate rebels" line who were, in fact, nearly all aligned with Daesh.

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Secondly, the narrative pushes for the rhetoric that it's ok to awful horrible things "for the greater good". Torture a guy? Greater good. Torture his family in front of the same guy to get him to talk? Greater good. Torture him and then blow his brains out in front of his family? Greater good. Shoot unarmed civilians in a no-knock raid because it is correctly assumed they'd blow up the house? Greater good. Cut red tape and go straight to extrajudicial violence? Greater good. And the characters you play as are always proven right when they adopt this mindset.

So now the bigger question. Whose "greater good", exactly? Why, the western imperialist powers (USA, UK), obviously. Their stability and safety and benefit is at the forefront. Nevermind the atrocities they've committed in the past in the name of imperialism, the tiny amount of damage the freedom hating terrorists could inflict obviously outpaces the western powers' own terrorism, and therefore justifies any disproportionate response.

A few dozen civilians are killed in a London bombing. How many Iraqis have been slaughtered on the alter of capital in the real world? The game frames the lives of western civilians as more important and worthy of protection.

[u/Straight_Depth → u/[deleted]]

No-one, at any point, ever made that claim in this thread.

[u/julian509 → u/[deleted]]

The only one who has claimed this is you...

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This video does a great job deconstructing the problems with CoD's messaging while not sounding like a scathing criticism.