Posted on 10/29/2019 8:56:11 AM PDT by Trump20162020
In Modern Warfare, the latest entry in the Call of Duty first-person shooter series, an infamous U.S. attack is fictionalized as Russian, rather than American, violence.
In the Modern Warfare single-player campaign's eleventh mission, players engage Russian snipers along a wartorn highway in the fictional country of Urkistan. Strewn with burnt out vehicles and bomb craters, a rebel leader named Farah leads players in an attempt to capture a terrorist leader known as "The Wolf." While the country and characters are fictionalized, Farah's description of the setting directly references a real-world event.
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This is about a game, right? Not about a history?
Because it says "Call of Duty" right there, which most Americans know is a very popular video game franchise. If the headline talks about The Godfather Part II, it doesn't really need to specifically include the word "movie" too, does it?
There nothing “infamous” about it except to the same scumbag Fake News that refer to a barbaric brutal terrorist mass murder as an “austere scholar”
an infamous U.S. attack is fictionalized as Russian, rather than American,
the story line may not be referencing the highway of death during the kuwati battles..
it is just a game.
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All America’s biggest enemies until Trump’s Presidency are now Big Media’s BFFs.
“Infamous” only to our enemies. To us: Decisive coalition victory.
I’d like to see the South African land expropriation version of this game.
That is not that simple. Legally ‘Highway of Death’ was much closer to a war crime than not.
Also Bush promised the Soviet Secretary of State Shewarnadze that the Iraqi forces would have free passage back home.
This promise was one of the primary reasons why Iraqis agreed to withdraw from Kuwait to start with.
I've never played it or seen it, but my point was that it is a game, not a historically accurate recreation of past events.
Most Americans would have understood what I was getting at.
You have a point but the game is a great tool of propaganda.
I’d say all of these were debunked as propaganda.
How can you make such a broad statement like that without citing a source?
The fact is that the Iraqis inflicted horrific atrocities on the Kuwaitis and I can cite a variety of sources all day long.
Nayirah testimony which is central to all of the above is now a case study of inciting war propaganda.
[You have a point but the game is a great tool of propaganda.]
If people are taking what’s in a video game as historically accurate, it’s not the game’s fault. They were already brainwashed idiots....
You have a point too, but it is a reality. Many people spend more time gaming than actually reading books and interacting with other people. For that reason alone it is an effective propaganda.
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