Is This U.S. Propaganda in CoD Modern Warfare?

In this video we look at how Call of Duty innacuretly portrays the Highway 80 incident in the Call of Duty Modern Warfare mission Highway of Death.
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#highwayofdeath

[@DSync2KBA]

“the reason for the game incorrectly place the blame on russia” also Activision putting Japanese guns in a german train:

[@misanthrope5063]

This could actually happen. Axis forces worked together.

[@plushluigi7417]

​@@misanthrope5063 what you gonna tell me next, the sun is hot?, humans breath air Whoops i started a third world war.

[@adamkojtka8678]

@@misanthrope5063 germany and italy yes but japan not

[@misanthrope5063]

@@adamkojtka8678 japanese forces did as well. Take a look back into history books bro.

[@CrayonEater255]

@@misanthrope5063 they did not shared weapons However

[@luciarae2663]

“Wait? CoD is propoganda???” “Always has been”

[@sirpizzas2]

Fr. Name 1 CoD game that isn't the US fighting X bad guy.

[@evansmillan8868]

​​​@@sirpizzas2MW2 2009? Where we fight an American Army General and his American PMC Company?

[@user-nn9pv5ky4c]

​@@sirpizzas2The Russian Campaign of World at War.

[@VengefulLuna12]

​@@user-nn9pv5ky4cyea, tbh i feel like it'd be interesting to see the other side like battlefield

[@CharaDreemurr_Undertale]

​@@user-nn9pv5ky4che's probably talking about non-ww2 games

[@glbhaboot]

POV: COD developers trying not to make enemies russian, from ussr, or middle east countries (impossible💀)

[@user-SaputroYono]

I hear if China want to make FPS game with u.s.a military as the enemy. Dont know if it true or not.

[@glbhaboot]

@@user-SaputroYono Call of Winnie The Pooh

[@jasehonfroy8086]

THEY ARE RHE ENEMY. 🇺🇸 USA USA HOORAH!!

[@Max-il5vh]

Sheperd but he is the only one i think

[@mohamedmamdouh682]

​@@jasehonfroy8086 raaah america 🐷

[@RandyMarshSP]

Wait You expected a war game built by a the us to not be propaganda?

[@AnonD38]

EXACTLY! Damn the US for making me believe the Nazis tried to raise an Army of Zombies to conquer the world!!!

[@LeoVOXA]

good point

[@henrywang3403]

I mean there was Advanced warfare, which was anti-US propaganda

[@dukiroki6891]

​@@henrywang3403advanced warfare is blatant us army propaganda

[@Jester_Jingles]

Except it was made by infinity ward. They don’t represent the whole of the us. They are a company owned by a bigger one. It was either the publisher or the developer that wanted this to be propaganda. The us government can’t tell the companies not to show them in a bad light due to the first amendment. Hence why games like spec ops the line are a thing.

[@MattyMatthew-m4o]

This is not the first time Activision fed us propaganda: They tried to make people believe the germans tried to create a zombie army in WW2, smh

[@Jeff4theRaid]

Wait bro, is cod zombies world war II not real or is world at war zombies not real...

[@subjectc7505]

They have done experiments

[@mikloridden8276]

I can’t tell if your joking or not. Nazi zombies is based on the Nazi experiments on humans back in the day, and yes one experiment was to see if they could revive people of course non of that worked and the scientists were just killing for fun at that point. Same with Japanese in Unit731, they would cut and reconnect their limbs to different parts on people including kids. The Axis were not innocent at all, say what you will about America but we aren’t as messed up as others.

[@bukanmamabuciarati1630]

And no german campaign at all. Except battlefield

[@BobLuvsBoobies]

😂 Bro they actually no lie really did try to do that though.

[@awesomestevie27]

Tbh every game but Waw has been pro American

[@nickmann3908]

Not true, original MW series was very neutral, even had an American villain.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

I think we can remove Infinite Warfare and reasonably Advanced Warfare.

[@fbiagent..]

@@tonypeppermint5329 also kinda bo2 as it all started because of america

[@skyfallen2775]

I mean Russia is a shit Country. Look at what they’re doing to ukraine

[@blacklight683]

"Let's invade the world" (*goes to America and only America*)

[@kidnamedfingergaming4754]

Don’t call it propaganda when Activision has been proven stupid

[@DeathCrateRSA]

Civilians escaping in a tank??

[@joshuadrew6246]

Iraqi millitary

[@manteca2132]

There were injured soldiers that were fleeing after the anounced retreat.

[@M_M-1]

@@manteca2132soo…minuses??

[@manteca2132]

@@M_M-1 warcrimes. 💀 In case of USA we can Say there are not minuses since his allies are a bunch of useless trash and even UN won't do nothing cause they are as useless as the pope opinion.

[@manteca2132]

@@M_M-1 by the way, what happened to the other coments? Does UT noted a person that don't think the dame as those coksuckers?

[@MuhammedYusufKARAPINAR-fb8kc]

"Wait, the CoD series is all about propaganda?" "Always has been."

[@user-rt3rm3wk8j]

“Wait, this is a repost?” “Always has been”

[@ilikecinema1234]

They literally show you the MK ultra program in black ops 1 and flow over it and act as if nothing happened just because Russia tried replicating the program 😭😭😭

[@caponebone4967]

Reznov did say that no nation can be trusted to destroy nova 6 which was true as the u.s. decided to make it's own nova 6 later on in the series so technically not all of cod is propaganda as he was right

[@ericmamleev]

*Folks, I took off the 20 one arm pull ups* *Support the people*

[@Lexus511]

I always say " it's all imagination " lol

[@HoodRatGandalf]

HWY- 80: *exists* A-10 warthog: “and I took that personally”

[@sirshotty7689]

British convoy: *exists* A-10 warthog: “and I took that personally”

[@ElimGamin109]

It knows who it’s enemies are🤣

[@mexicanmasterchef3549]

I will give you better one Middle-eastern civilians(since all middle-eastern civilians are considered collateral damage) trying to escape illegal war on their country Nato: i toke that personal

[@marcinfilipkiewicz6635]

@@mexicanmasterchef3549 Of course the world is that simple my little guppy!

[@hanbouwhuis4706]

Mmm a-10 is only good is there is zero AA

[@pickle4422]

This isn’t an example of propaganda. The United States doesn’t ever deny the highway of death incident. It’s just an example of the writers’ stupidity.

[@user-xf7sk9jx2u]

Вообще-то отрицали мой юный падаван . Сразу после данного инцидента ваше правительство тогда да и сейчас отрицает причастность к данной трагедии заявив что данное произошло само собой без вмешательства армии США . НО свидетели говорят обратное до сих пор. Я надеюсь что в мое стране выпустят игру ( трейлер почти готов ) где американская армия ведёт себя так как вы себя вели в Ираке Афганистане и Сирии: а именно вы были жестокими , бесчеловечными и с манией величия , a именно убивали мирное население насиловали женщин этих стран и издевались над пленными .

[@RMD94]

No but they deny not knowing it was full of civilians when they did

[@sugaashow]

NPC.

[@jonnybgoode7742]

​@@RMD94😂😂😂

[@RMD94]

@@jonnybgoode7742 how's that funny, do you laugh about 2001

[@huhsz]

Note that the people “trying to flee” was the Iraqi military, leaving Kuwait, after looting. Basically they bombed a Looter Convoy. But for some reason, they brought along groups of Iraqi civilians who settled in Kuwait. Leading to Iraqi civilian losses as well.

[@AvalancheGameArt]

Then why the russians are potrait as villain for killing looters in the game?

[@theroyaljackals]

The bigger controversy is with the riot shield blocking missiles.

[@sketchflix6425]

😂😂😂😂

[@marvinlalandos773]

Ah yes, riot shield. Stronger than even a helicopter

[@voodooillusion7219]

And drill charge. Who needs a bomb shelter whe you have the shield of God

[@LeQuack147]

The Riot Shield has always been secret god-tier.

[@TankMasterGo]

​@@marvinlalandos773 even stronger than warship's armor

[@iseeuboi1655]

I completely forgot that they even mentioned the highways name, I was too busy perfecting my watermelon killing skills

[@4_xk]

Fruit ninja.

[@holeesheet6530]

Your fruit killing skills must be remarkable.

[@SiPakRubah]

Remember, perfecting your watermelon killing skills is faster than reloading

[@insertu5ernamehere]

We haven’t got all bloody day!!!

[@Goober_80]

I was just there to shoot Watermelons and Terrorists.

[@joebob7483]

You forgot to leave out it was a convoy of soldiers who had just committed war crimes on civilian population on Kuwait. If you look up “highway of death” you will find both stories. But the images show tanks and weapons; the evidence tells the truth.

[@Potatocius]

So didn't USA committed war crimes in Iraq?? Isn't Israel committing War crimes in Palestine right now and USA is backing them in it. War crimes and International Laws are BS and doesn't apply on everyone

[@drjacob2276]

Ridiculous how people forget that there was an agreement reached with the former USSR for Iraq to withdraw and the White House spokesperson, Marlin Fitzwater, even stated the US military would not attack the Iraqis leaving Kuwait. Furthermore, in March 1991 when the Gulf War fully ended, the US still attacked and slaughtered the remaining Iraqi soldiers who were allowed to leave Kuwait. Regarding the war crimes part, the US literally made up a story (Nayirah's Testimony) to start the Gulf War lmao.

[@andryuu_2000]

Cod is still american propaganda

[@some_cool_random_guy]

@@andryuu_2000the writer’s propaganda*

[@DrMrManGuy]

You mean he did leave that out. Also, what does this have to do with attempts to pin it on Russia?

[@thiccerbriccer2]

Not sure why they gave credit to Russia for an immensely successful US military operation.

[@filmandfirearms]

Because they want to make Russians look evil by lying about both the event and who was responsible for it. Just like how they made a Russian missile strike against a train station look evil when there was hours of drone footage showing they only fired when they could see soldiers in full combat kit boarding the trains

[@mohamedmamdouh682]

I known right ? Everybody is trying to take credit of our war crimes, america raaah

[@sovietheart3883]

..against a 3rd world country in order to steal oil

[@mcsuckit1116]

As Garfield once said, "You are Not immune to Propaganda"

[@77Phoenix]

That was Jon to Garfield

[@alexanderthegreat2678]

Autistic people are immune to propaganda

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Amerimutts eating it up like big macs

[@WaterVolt1917]

@@NeostormXLMAX Damn, that was honestly so funny I forgot to laugh

[@commenter621]

One or ones

[@leukon5348]

People are surprised by the existence of propaganda. Everyone knows what is propaganda, but they pretend not to know. Humanity is amazing.

[@pivomanslovensko]

Or maybe its a game in which a non-existant country exists and historical events are altered!

[@LOKSTED]

Calling this fictional game “US propaganda” is like calling Starwars rebel alliance propaganda

[@swatbaker]

@@LOKSTED George Lucas confirmed himself that Star wars uses background of all US conficts in history, and that the US arent the one represented as the good guys.

[@LOKSTED]

@@swatbaker I don’t listen to political takes from hollywood and I don’t get facts from a fictional game

[@evagineer9165]

@@cctproductions6976 can I throw stones at you

[@TyW200]

The mission is set in a fictional country. Not Iraq. The highway of death in the mission has nothing to do With The Gulf War.

[@MrTangolizard]

And u ain’t saying propaganda by saying “fleeing Iraqis” instead of the Iraqi army

[@LS-jv9hp]

or lying about Desert Storm when it was the US stopping Iraqi Imperalism.

[@MrTangolizard]

@@LS-jv9hp 100% a point lost on the “u.s bad” mob

[@grantusthighs9417]

They were retreating with no means of fighting back. Define it however you want.

[@LS-jv9hp]

@@grantusthighs9417 Skill issue.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@grantusthighs9417 I prefer the version I just copied from the official website of the Red Cross. Please read it and tell me if it was a warcrime or not, using this text. I quote: "A combatant is hors de combat if A: he is in the power of an adverse party; B: he clearly expresses an intention to surrender; or C: he has been rendered unconscious or is otherwise incapacitated by wounds or sickness, and is therefore incapable of defending himself. Provided that in any of these cases he abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape, he may not be made the object of attack." End quote. Curious if this text will change your answer, and how you will defend it if it does not.

[@TheTruthIsGonnaHurt]

First 5 seconds I thought I was in Skyrim. The PTSD of Skyrim intro will forever haunt me.

[@cookiebuster652]

PTSD? You can never have enough

[@kv2_tank]

Hey you finally awake?

[@dovahound]

You were trying to cross the border right walk right in the imperial ambush same as us and that theif over there.

[@Lingel-Sama]

Bro gets ptsd from a video game

[@darkmoneybrandon24]

@@Lingel-Sama who tf are u

[@mindtreat]

What? Oh my god... and here i have been using all the COD games as references for history class that i'm teaching!

[@elviskoo548]

Wow I didn’t know cod was entirely based on real history

[@n3rdworldproblemz877]

Still impacts you unconciously and influences how you generate beliefs. Why do you think DOJ pushed a shit ton of money into COD. Good game hut your retarted if you don't understand it is also USA propaganda.

[@Say-ro4rq]

They are all so dumb they might think you are serious 🤣

[@elviskoo548]

@@Say-ro4rq yeah😂😂

[@ethanb594]

😳

[@ChrisVillagomez]

This seems more like a "don't assume maliciousness that could be explained by stupidity". Like other commenters said, I thibk Activision just screwed up the actual lore. OR, my idea is that Urzikstan is supposed to be like the invasion of Iraq, but if the Russians invaded instead, a kind of alternate but slightly convergent history

[@i_georgiequest_i4160]

The high way of death incident, was us bombing military targets using civilian vehicles as a means to escape Baghdad it was an enemy of the enemy not a bombing of innocent people

[@joehip69420]

BEANS

[@jobe_seed6674]

Napoleon said that not Price🤦

[@fnm249sawtoo]

​@@jobe_seed6674Price said that. On the original MW, I believe? Or ia it on MW2? I can't remember shit man

[@dNorsh]

@@fnm249sawtoo original

[@fnm249sawtoo]

@@dNorsh oh thanks mate

[@MaskedGamer10001]

@@fnm249sawtooit was mw2 when they were hunting down Shepard

[@TheOrangeRoad]

Next Cod: Russia seceded from the US and started the Civil War in 1861 "You and TF141 is going to sneak into Moscow, Tennessee using the underground railroad and end slavery by taking out Putin"

[@trash_1396]

I’d play it

[@quetzelmedina3]

Lol yes.

[@rocketaimz314]

Take my wallet

[@alexmilakis1156]

Yeah I'd definitely play this game

[@dilloncurry9052]

I’d buy this cod fasho. Shit would slap harder than dad when he hits me in the mouth

[@yodabuthigh289]

Either way, whoever was watching that highway, gave his boys a bunch of kills 😂

[@thejunkmanlives]

the highway of death was well documented. iraqi units where trying to run. wouldnt have happened if they werent in Kuwait in the first place.

[@geediosman6415]

kuwait existing doesnt make sense

[@dsdgdsfegfeg]

Don't bother, the young people today willingly listen to every price of Russian/Chinese/Qatari/Iranian/Saudi Wumao Bot propaganda. They are so media illiterate they actually believe Hamas

[@alexjeffrey3981]

What you're describing is a massacre. Not combat.

[@sixohtwo12]

​@@alexjeffrey3981maybe learn the difference between retreat and surrender

[@alexjeffrey3981]

@@sixohtwo12 maybe learn the difference between a massacre and a war crime. I'm not saying that it's a war crime, I'm saying it's messed up.

[@Weezerr420]

theres a cool story mission in Splinter Cell: Conviction that puts Sam Fisher on the highway of death, in pursuit of his captured squadmate. its a really interesting mission tbh

[@pratyayroy4286]

No rather it was his squardmate victor who went to rescue sam , sam was captured and interrogated

[@carterloveland6688]

What in the fuck does this have to do with the video lmao

[@skylessadim]

@@carterloveland6688 The Highway of Death bro, we’re discussing gaming

[@James-fs9ys]

Oh yeah thats a very cool mission I remember it

[@Cam-nq8br]

Loved that one

[@Xspy70]

For those defending COD here: "They've done this before." No. There's a big difference between portraying someone as bad versus pinning your own real-life controversies onto them. "It's just a game." Considering the newer generations are more likely to remember Highway of Death from COD than a history book, this is very much history being rewritten. UPDATE: For those who didn't realize - It's not me who cannot differentiate fact from fiction. It's those who don't bother to or can't, which I believe are far more numerous than one would hope otherwise.

[@nekajuii]

Exhibit 1: The game takes place in the near-future, in the fictional country of Urzikstan in the Caucasus. It is not during the gulf war, not in Iraq, and not a reference to that event Exhibit 2: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku%E2%80%93Rostov_highway_bombing Quit bootlicking, vatnik.

[@Xspy70]

@@nekajuii Ah yes. It seems you need to have an IQ of at least a cucumber to see the similarities. Wishful thinking on my behalf, apologies. Rebranding names and changing times surely absolves one from association and reference. Let's ignore the similar actions, looks and obvious references and focus on names instead. If Ale kills Jimmy with a knife in the restaurant, then the right course of action is of course to change all names. There - now Bohdan killing Boris with a blade in the eatery has nothing to do with Ale killing Jimmy with a knife in the restaurant. Ignore the fact that the scene is still right in front of your very own eyes and you only changed names of what you're seeing. Try using that in court. The truth is, ever since communication was a thing, past events were referenced indirectly through such rebranding. Many lore writers took historical events and simply rebranded the names and even times, but the actions and outcomes remained. And so did the references - so as to give similar associations, messages and emotions. And that's OK, but what's NOT ok is trying to pin the reference and responsibility on someone else that also refers to a real person/entity. Take a real event, like Nazis gassing the Jews in concentration camps in 1942. Simply rename the Jews to Urziks, then take the British and say the British gassed the Urziks in 2019 in nearly identical looking concentration camps. Surely no references going on there. Oh but let's still call it the Holocaust. I'll spell it out loud and clear for you. If they didn't wish to associate the event with its real-life version, then why: - Is it still called the Highway of Death? Why not change that name too? - Why is it still a similar looking highway? - Why does it still take place in a similar looking desert? - Why does the scene in-game look very similar to the real scene? - Why did it happen during a retreat as well? Fun fact - even the Call of Duty Wiki refers to this mission as a reference to the real Highway of Death. If they could figure it out, surely can the likes of you, unless you've been too busy smoking sunflowers from your granny's socks. As for the Rostov bombing whataboutism - then do a portrayal of THAT event, you buffoons! A simple rebranding that directly references their real actions fair and square. No problems there. What's going on here is NOT that. Here, it is a real reference that is being pinned on someone else. And as the reference refers to a real event, pinning it on someone else is rewriting history.

[@nekajuii]

@@Xspy70 A whole two paragraphs of pure nonsensical, contradictory copium. Nice. "Whataboutism is when my actual whataboutism is rebutted" - You They wouldn't copy the Rostov bombing either because it's not meant to be the same event, just as it isn't meant to be H-80. Either way, disregarding the fact that the Rostov bombing was in the caucasus and Urzikstan is in the caucasus, adding similarities but we'll ignore it to entertain your "muh propaganda" copium: Rewriting history is, can't believe I have to say this, REWRITING HISTORY, saying "H-80 bombings didnt happen" or "they happened, but Russia did it!" What do those two have in common? Right, neither of those two are the case here "BUT MUH SIMILARITIES! MUH REFERENCE!" If it is a reference, it's still occuring in a fictional country, at a year that hasn't come around yet, and just like those two factors are disconnected from reality given it's... not the same event, the same way the actor is different as that of the real life "equivalent", probably given it's, first, not the same event, and second, wouldn't make sense to have the US bomb an Urzik highway when they are not involved in the Urzik conflict, unlike Russia is in the story? And the funny thing is, even when this is a fictional event and probably referenced a real life event, it's still fully realistic for Russia to have done the same in Urzikstan (See: Rostov and related refugee bombings and literally the entire 1980s Afghan-Soviet war) Nice copium, still. Keep crying vatnik, lol

[@edwardianswifter6467]

Well, history is written by the Victor

[@Xspy70]

​@@nekajuii Copium? Vatnik? Propaganda? What brand of paint thinner have you been sniffing, broski? I'm not even defending the ruskies here - I'm pointing out that if they wanted to portray such an event, they should have used the Rostov Bombing setting instead of taking an obviously real event and setting that the US was involved in and changing it to the responsibility of the russians. The mission in COD does not portray the Rostov Bombings. It looks like the real Highway of Death instead - taking place in a desert, among all the similar looking wreckages and scenarios (also in 2019 - not a year that hasn’t come yet as you claimed but still irrelevant). All the details are there, just with the rebranding. It is painfully obvious that the creators of the plot referenced the real event. Both the wiki and even Polygon mention it and the controversy. You really need to be voluntarily blind not to see it. It doesn't matter at all if the russians were capable of doing such an event in real-life. The reference attributed to it should have been accurate and relevant. Instead, looking at COD, one could attribute both the Highway of Death AND the Rostov Bombing onto the ruskies. Do remember that most of the demographic wouldn't even bother to check this. To attribute real events to someone not responsible for them is to pin the blame and create an altered image for one's own gains - essentially rewriting history to one's advantage. "We didn't do it - the ruskies did!" - Them "Well they didn't, but they are capable of it so it's fine to pin it on them." - You It is very obvious that you are so eager to excuse the COD writers because you have a thing or two against the russians. That doesn’t justify your line of thought - it only makes you look like an NPC spouting labels and catchphrases upon interaction. Back to the topic - this reminds me of the Nordlys mission in Battlefield 5. It caused a major controversy as it took a real event, completely erased the involvement of actual British and male units thus undermining their efforts, and replaced them with a mother and daughter taking on the entire Nazi base. HistoryLegends did a good video on that kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKLGonihi9lmd5I Lay off the potato booze and kindly go educate yourself.

[@Tinnitus1445]

I don’t really get why they’d lie about it. As an American I’m proud of the highway of death. Tactically that was a huge W for Uncle Sam. It wasn’t even in the infamous invasion of Iraq it was in the gulf war and those deaths were Iraqi military retreating after their failed invasion of Kuwait. That highway marked the end of the Iraqi military as a capable threat in the region for a long time. There was nothing imperialistic about it, if anything it was one of the more anti-imperialistic things we’ve done in the modern age.

[@krapsenhelb180]

You can't argue against snowflakes

[@Tinnitus1445]

@@jackdransfield2230 a lot of those allegations come from the vehicles found in the wreckage. Yes civilian busses and other vehicles were found in large numbers however a vast plurality of them were being used by the Iraqi army in their route to transport troops. I’m sure there was a number of civilians present as well, it would be surprising if there wasn’t any but the allegations are very likely exaggerated. However the reward outweighs the cost by spades, Saddam’s army was rendered impotent for years and that alone saves more civilian lives than were killed on the highway of death. It brought a quick and decisive end to Iraqi ambitions of conquest and in the larger picture that saved more than were lost.

[@dankengine5304]

These comments do make me mad. The "America bad" crowd is incredibly stupid.

[@Finnbobjimbob]

Even if everyone that was killed was military personnel (Which is extremely unlikely) The soldiers were told to retreat and harming retreating forces is a war crime.

[@dankengine5304]

@@Finnbobjimbob - Okay so here’s the thing. It is possible civilians may have been present, but it is VERY unlikely. Even if there were civilians, I highly doubt it was more than 10. Second, retreating soldiers are still soldiers. Its not a war crimes to kill retreating forces. They’re still combatants.

[@tronlegacy2664]

Btw it wasnt fleeing Iraqis.. it was the Iraq militia that was fleeing the city… get your story correct…

[@patrickkenyon2326]

It was Republican Guard.

[@GhoulJaron]

Alot of civilians were there not only militia 😐

[@sleepingrrandom2876]

@@GhoulJaron Then don't escape with civvies???

[@GhoulJaron]

@sleepingrrandom2876 it wasn't planned to leave with civilians, and it's a war crime to kill civilians even while there in the same place as fighters, America and Americans try to justify the loss of innocent life's always, just remember this before the second Iraq war there was almost none terrorist groups out of the middle east, now look at the consequences of American lies and killing, terrorists are born out of injustice that's why 9/11 and that's why IS()IS was created, there goal is to inflict the same pain you inflicted on there people, there's something special about IS()IS it's that most of it's leaders were in iraqi prisons run by America and they were tortured, to me they had a justifiable cause but not good actions, even of America did worse which it did, they were brutal and merciless they learned it from America, Osama and the after him said it themselfs, they wanted to inflict the same pain on American innocent life's as much as America inflicted on middle eastern innocent life's of tyranny and injustice, in 2006 Osama said God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed - when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the US sixth fleet. This from informed comment: Readers have asked me to what Bin Laden was referring when he said he first conceived the idea of attacking US skyscrapers when the Israelis destroyed the “towers” of Beirut. Beirut had been among the more advanced cities in the Arab world. I saw it in 1968 and 1974 before the civil war when it was called the Geneva of the Middle East. Although there was fighting in Beirut 1975-1981 by local militias, in fact by the early 1980s the situation had calmed down substantially and the economy was roaring back. Then Ariel Sharon took it into his head to invade Lebanon in 1982. Sharon always has plots within plots. He wanted to install a far-rightwing government of his liking in Beirut and reshape the Eastern Mediterranean. And he wanted to murder the Palestinian leadership in Beirut, just bomb them all or otherwise rub them out. Although the Palestine Liberation Organization was an annoyance to Israel, it had been substantially defeated by the Syrians in the late 1970s and was extremely weak in 1982. In a way, Sharon’s attack was made possible by the Camp David Accords, in which Egypt made a separate peace. Sharon took advantage of the neutralization of Egypt to launch an aggressive war on Lebanon. Egyptians were boiling mad as a result. The horrible Israeli siege of Beirut in summer of 1982, which lasted for weeks, involved the brutal and indiscriminate bombing of the city. Many of the “towers” that were destroyed contained hundreds of innocent Beirutis. Sharon’s proposed puppet ruler, Bashir Gemayyel, used to keep posters of Hitler in his locker at college. He was promptly assassinated and the whole scheme fell apart. The invasion killed some 18,000 persons, half of them innocent civilians. During this period Sharon turned the task of guarding the disarmed and helpless Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps over to his allies, the fascist Phalangist paramilitary. The latter promptly murdered hundreds of defenseless Palestinians. One of the 9/11 hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, was a Lebanese Sunni who was 8 when the Israelis invaded his country and wrought so much destruction. He obviously was deeply traumatized by the experience. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was a wanton act of aggression and destruction that ended up radicalizing the Lebanese Shiites and leading them to develop the technique of suicide bombing. A majority of Israelis was disgusted with the war, and in the aftermath Sharon was politically marginalized for two decades. Somehow he has managed to rehabilitate himself and now pursues his agenda of killing without any let or hindrance.

[@julianuriarte]

@@sleepingrrandom2876Dumbass

[@chefboyardeeznuts8465]

Thank God I can distinguish game lore from irl.

[@ensog6612]

I was about to say the same thing. Its literally a fictional game.

[@Firagaa]

You are not immune to propaganda

[@mpondachongo1138]

​@@Firagaa he didn't say he was

[@Alan-wj5zc]

@@ensog6612 This only works so far. What if cod ww2 had a Holocaust scene but attributed it to the US? There would rightly be outrage because it’s not only ahistorical but it’s offensive to the people touched by the tragedy. Playing the “it’s just a video game bro!” Will only protect you so far.

[@osmaraldair87]

Thank God I can distinguish assholes from what they write

[@shrimpsalad2498]

Lol you forgot to mention that it was a military convoy

[@gustavserrander9268]

Alot of those people there were civilians only part of people there were militia

[@가니메데]

​@@gustavserrander9268cap

[@revenge8621]

@@gustavserrander9268so why would civilians leave Kuwait? You know, the country that was invaded by Iraq?

[@Hamanyoo]

Fun Fact: The Iraqis fleeing from Kuwait in 1991, were actually a punch of thieves, murderers, and r@pests. And most of the vehicles have Kuwaiti plates.

[@rattman96]

I stopped buying the story everytime the US narrative is labelling some people as something negative.

[@AnonD38]

@@rattman96The US one of the most free countries on the planet with journalists who are free to do their work and uncover the truth: PROPAGANDA Iraq an actual fcking dictatorship, where journalists who even give as much as slight criticism get hanged: I trust your every word! You sir are mentally deranged.

[@japanesebitter1066]

@@rattman96yeah because they totally didn’t just invade and plunder a country. There is no reason to believe the Iraqi either

[@hanz3470]

Hmm you sure about that? Many of this was proven to be false information like Kuwaiti princess trained by CIA to share similar stuff. Kuwaiti government was stealing Iraqi oil btw which pushed Iraq to invade. Not because of whatever garbage your indoctrinated with. Iraqi wanted to take over Kuwait, why the hell would they rape and kill. This isn't like the genocidal Israelis

[@glorpolius]

Thank God, for a second I thought maybe the U.S did something terrible. Glad to know that out of the thousands of people in civilian vehicles on a public highway, not a single innocent person was harmed.

[@flooid5506]

Nobody’s ever accused COD of being historically accurate

[@jimmystaytrippy6586]

That’s propoganda buddy they are literally changing recent history that’s fucked

[@youravaragetoxicmasculinem9508]

Being historically inacurate is one thing, to throw of the blame to others is another. There would be different reactions if they mande a game where N*zis were the good guys and it was actually F*ench who commited the halacoust.

[@Rusia564]

It’s disgusting because people play cod and think that cod is historically accurate you are right it is stupid to think that it’s real but trust me when I say there are short minded individuals who defenetly go by this crap

[@nickenchugget9882]

Except world at war

[@MohammadAliKhalil]

🤡 comment

[@Reilly-Maresca]

This is literally one of the defining purposes of the entire franchise

[@shwitz3614]

Like the de escalation thing in the new game where you point your gun at civilians while invading a country secretly

[@kamalaharry9514]

Good thing no one plays the campaign.

[@tiandi5585]

@@kamalaharry9514 I want what you're smoking.

[@papapedro6980]

Right because General Shepherd in the original mw2 was just the perfect pro american message😐

[@Garbearishere]

Got proof? 😂

[@T-h-a-t_G-u-y]

Trying to make attacking a military convoy sound like a bad thing

[@gololowazabi374]

infinity ward is feeding us propaganda no shit

[@WeezerFan505]

"Sir we must stop we are killing innocent civilians" "Stfu free bird is playing"

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Those weren't innocent civilians. Highway of Death resulted from the Iraqi army fleeing Kuwait after they had failed to invade and occupy Kuwait. The Iraqi army stole any civilian vehicle they could find in Kuwait, set the Kuwaiti oil fields on fire, and booked it for the highway. But they weren't fast enough to escape the American Hercules airplanes... Or as CoD gamers know it; the AC-130. Yes, America will happily take the blame for killing soldiers who failed to invade another country. Some of those oil fields are still burning to this very day, impossible to put out due to the gasses emitted by crude oil.

[@WeezerFan505]

@@Thor.Jorgensen nah free bird is playing

[@Moofshire]

There weren't any civilians on the road. It was the Iraqi army.

[@smudent2010]

I bet you think biden got 81 million votes too

[@dickiewongtk]

@@Moofshire It was the iraqi army, disarmed, in civilian clothing and vehicle.

[@coolguyithink2.036]

“WHAT THE F**K IS A KILOMETER?”

[@getthegoons]

"I DON'T SPEAK COMMIE. HOW MANY FOOTBALL FIELDS IS IT?"

[@ramimohanedmahdi6418]

1.6 kilometers = 1 mile

[@dececho1735]

100cm = 1m 1000m = 1km

[@dececho1735]

@@hnojic so how tall are you i Can do mine in centimeter and M/cm 193cm 1m93cm

[@joshuaking9589]

if liberty calls.... YOU PICK UP THAT PHONE! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅💥🇺🇸🇺🇸💥🇺🇸🇺🇸💥🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@williamsmith8790]

The Highway of Death was not “fleeing Iraqi’s” as you so quaintly put it. It was the Iraqi army retreating out of Kuwait to avoid justice with all the loot they stole. A lot were Republican Guards who were Saddam’s Waffen SS. These were not “innocents.”

[@ravensfootball52]

Yes the murderers told us they’re not murderers. Obviously they’re not lying

[@maxg4304]

@@ravensfootball52goes both ways

[@sovietheart3883]

The US Military loves to bomb civilians anyways and they killed several hundreds of thousands in bomb raids against iraq

[@arilavanderboom4990]

Ah yes the lies even thou the evidence is exist as clear as day

[@Thierry_La_Fraude]

Not sure if honest dumb or liar

[@vltraviolence7640]

"Its crazy how Activision never runs out of money for these God Tier games." US Department of Defense: das crazy Edit: when I say God Tier I meant how expensive it is. It didn't matter if Vanguard was shit, the game alone probably costs millions to make. And they still had money to do collabs AND release MW2 a year after.

[@user-ee2tx6so2k]

Lmao

[@Elohim100]

“God tier” they’re all made on the same engine and they’re trash.

[@Rnjesus386]

@@Elohim100they’re not all on the same engine, but for the most part are trash because of the community not the game itself

[@heyyou9472]

@@Elohim100 you're braindead if you think MWII 2022 and MW2 are made from the same exact engine

[@Elohim100]

@@Rnjesus386 The only thing braindead is your reply. I didn’t say those two games specifically. I implied all of the recent games.

[@neil1280]

Just what shepherd says when we shit we bury

[@JakvsMetalheads999]

It’s definitely worth noting that in real life, the “fleeing Iraqi vehicles” were not civilian cars or refugees but the Iraqi Army retreating out of Kuwait. Not surrendering, retreating and regrouping. They were 100% legitimate targets. They had practically no defense against coalition air forces, so the results of the ensuing turkey shoot ended up being pretty gruesome, but that’s unfortunately war. If they surrendered, it would have been a different story. Saddam severely overestimated the capabilities of his forces, underestimated those of the coalition and picked a fight he couldn’t win. The Highway of Death isn’t a war crime, it’s simply the end result of a long military convoy with no effective air defenses meeting a technologically advanced enemy with total air superiority.

[@lach7324]

Okay, so a few things for the sake of anyone who might see this later. First of all this is somewhat true. The highway was attacked because Iraqi soldiers were fleeing down it. However, pinning it on Russia is still a form of propaganda, and this is still a warcrime. Regardless of whether they had officially surrendered or not, international law forbids killing retreating soldiers who are not currently engaging in combat.

[@JakvsMetalheads999]

@@lach7324 No, that’s not correct and I’d encourage you to read up on the matter. It's a war crime to kill a non combatant. A non combatant would be a surrendered enemy, a prisoner of war, a wounded enemy, a civilian, etc. A *retreating* enemy is *not* a non combatant. They have not surrendered. They are not out of the fight. They are simply leaving a position to avoid being destroyed or captured. Another way to think of it - they're leaving to fight another day. As long as they haven't surrendered, they are still legitimate targets. As dishonorable or unfair as it might seem to essentially shoot an enemy in the back, it is not a war crime. In the case of the Gulf War, the Iraqi Army had not surrendered, they were simply retreating from Kuwait, and were still legitimate targets for the Coalition to destroy. Had they not been destroyed, those forces could have been used against them or against Kuwait. If they laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Coalition, the situation would be very different, but that's not what happened. It was definitely not right for this game to try to paint the Highway of Death as something the Russians did, nor was it right in general how this game depicted the Russians. Whoever wrote this story went way overboard and definitely crossed the line into propaganda. The Russians are comically evil in this game and I'm not defending that. All I'm saying is that the real life Highway of Death incident, carried out by American forces in the Gulf War, was not a war crime. It wasn't a good thing either, it was gruesome and it was terrible, but that's the unfortunate reality of war. The term "war crime" gets thrown around way too freely these days. It's very important people understand what is and is not a war crime. That's why I'm replying to this, so that misinformation isn't spread and so that people, including yourself, understand and look into these things. *I also apologize if you noticed all the edits I've been making, I was struggling to find the right wording here.

[@vietnamtactical]

You know also in real life the SAS didnt fight off the cartel lmao

[@SWATzero]

As an American I can safely say that I want it to be correct and say that we did it.

[@C.I.A.Headquarters]

The reason why they didn't is stupidly obvious, it's in a fake country attacked by Russia, why tf would the us do it if they weren't there.

[@mastergator9641]

Very efficiently too

[@dako8989]

Nah its nothing to be ashamed of Iraq fucked around and found out Maybe they should not invade Kuwait next time

[@sauron1414]

Good thing the americans did it, liberated Kuwait with it.

[@ogiebear8484]

It’s a different road… they just happened to use a name that turned out to be a thing

[@josephandersonslaugh4923]

GBU-15: “man life just isn’t fun anymore” Huge convoy of Iraqi Army vehicles:

[@deezalmonds7680]

*Civilian vehicles.

[@top_hat_walrus1860]

@@deezalmonds7680 the we’re using civilian vehicles as cover though. Some may have actually been civilians but some also weren’t

[@ok-ol6wb]

​@@top_hat_walrus1860 they were civilians,where is your proof that they were using civilian vehicles?

[@Duskinator-qz1om]

​@@ok-ol6wb Iraqis stole Kuwaiti vehicles and personal items, and were driving down the highway. Not only were there civilian vehicles but also Type 59 and T62 tanks and military trucks towing ZPUs. you can see it in any picture

[@top_hat_walrus1860]

@@ok-ol6wb if you look up the incident ok Wikipedia it states that Iraqi forces used the road to retreat. The controversy was that we vaporized RETREATING forces

[@InterGalacticEnglishMan]

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 :- *Chinese Invasion of America* coming right up ⬆️

[@jesusofbullets]

“Resulting in hundreds of deaths” Don’t mention the fact that most of them not only were Iraqi military that weren’t surrendering but also that we let over 90% of them go because we busted them so badly. We could’ve racked up up to 10K had we actually been serious.

[@chilledburrito]

also Activision: added a riot shield that is impervious to cruise missiles.

[@kneverknow1708]

Thousands of vehicles but hundreds of deaths. That math ain’t adding up

[@Komody0924]

casualties and losses are an estimated 200-1000 killed, 2000 captured, ab 2500 vehicles destroyed. people probably realized that staying in their vehicles and dying was less optimal than surrendering and not dying

[@ian6273]

Imagine being in a massive traffic jam except you being strafed and bombed by the US navy and Air Force. Yah you would probably abandon that vehicle pretty fast too.

[@ROCKETMANN56]

According to Wikipedia, many had abandoned their vehicles before the strafing began.

[@out4rvnge930]

There were thousands of footprints that headed off into the desert.

[@bitterlemon7721]

Over 100.000 dead soldiers, worst part they had surrendered already and were retreating. One of the biggest war crimes if not the biggest since holocaust. But yeah Murica is the good guy asking other nations to "respect" human rights

[@bluVoid]

bro its a fucking game, a video game?

[@IanCrouse]

I'm a Desert Storm Veteran, and the HoD was a much needed attack on weapons, tanks, and soldiers still in theatre during wartime. They are lucky we didn't finish the rest of the instability within the region.

[@SledLob]

And people wonder why everyone hates the USA, just take a look at this guys’ comment!

[@cpi3267]

"fleeing iraqi vehicles" military vehicles, they were military vehciles LEAVING kuwait..

[@AmerIsHere]

With hundreds of civilians with them

[@cpi3267]

@@AmerIsHere If you're riding a military convoy, out of a country which that military invaded, then you're not a civvie.

[@declaringpond2276]

​@@cpi3267 so Ukrainian civilians who fled on military transports aren't civilians?

[@cpi3267]

@@declaringpond2276 yeah pretty much

[@declaringpond2276]

@@cpi3267 guess a war criminal thats constant is better than a hypocritical one

[@kaptain_krust]

Call of duty is definitely known for it's historical accuracy

[@jorgeochoa6224]

I play the games story when I can, but don’t take it serious 😂

[@theproblemstarters]

I heard about this, now continue working on part 2 of historical inaccuracies in cod vangaurd

[@TheFrosty_1]

I'm currently working with someone else to do the historical inaccuracies of CoD Cold War, so stay tuned for that

[@montya.m]

That would take hours for vanguard

[@hireguardgames1998]

@@montya.m might as well say the whole game is a historical incaccuracy

[@aintgotimetowipe]

@@TheFrosty_1 way better 😃

[@theproblemstarters]

@@TheFrosty_1 ight

[@Pensadoroculto]

Americans being Americans.

[@JamesFrancisCawfee]

You mean american feds paying off media. All of us arent like this

[@asifishan1221]

Mericans being Mericans.

[@mostlyshorts7462]

🇺🇸🦅🤘🏻

[@KINGMAC355]

SECOND TO NONE WE OWN THE FINISH LINE GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES AND THE RED WHITE AND BLUE🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🛢️🛢️🛢️🔥🔥🔥

[@jaquemain8747]

Somebody’s feelings are deeply hurt. You ever think with your clearly very intelligent brain that they just don’t focus on accuracy that much? This is limited to this event - read the comments ffs.

[@brandonmcmanis5528]

I have a relative who was there. Said it was one of the craziest things he saw. He wouldn't go into more detail then that.

[@fortycello-yx7ju]

America:^^^ Israel: Hold my bear

[@giggsy__]

A game about American soldiers made by an American company portrays America in a complete positive light? Wow who would’ve thought?

[@Mike-tf1yx]

It didn’t portray them in a positive light though, it just flat out lied and said Russia was responsible for the attack 😂😂

[@adgjmptpwpjm123]

Im no American, but thats facts. To those that don't actually know that have smooth fucking brains.

[@Dark-cl6md]

@@Mike-tf1yxit’s just a video game

[@icer1249]

which is ironic cause the main characters (price, soap, gaz etc) are all part of the SAS. And even during the campaigns the americans missions were boring and the SAS missions were the best. (OG Cod not remakes)

[@AnonD38]

⁠@@Mike-tf1yxIt’s a video game, it never claimed it was historically accurate. In fact, NOTHING CoD EVER did was historically accurate.

[@EB-73-]

It's almost as if the military trainer is secretly trying to prep you for the military 🤔🤔🤔

[@alexd4566]

Imagine just now realizing that CoD is American propaganda 😆

[@slyllamademon2652]

Yeah they never taught us about this in school.

[@Daniel-yz5qj]

Average american school

[@Angel_423]

Because its not as bad as this guy makes it sound, the highway was used as a retreat route for the iraqi army, ofc there were some civilians but the iraqi soldiers also stole civilian vehicles and used them. Also on that highway are tanks and logistical millitary vehicles

[@banjoacosta]

D fuck? Why would they teach that to school?

[@DanielGarcia-kw4ep]

​@@Angel_423They should have never been there in the first place

[@Mephist0pheIes]

Yeah they were too busy teaching me a bout drug addicts and police brutality

[@WhoJustStoleMyName]

Alright, it’s either that Farah is stupid or COD is really feeding us propangada

[@skp1575]

"So American." ~Perseus, Cod Cold War.

[@thepeoplepodcast1353]

Damnit. I was gonna use black ops 2 for my history report

[@NetherRealm265]

I guess “work of fiction” doesn’t mean anything anymore

[@iseeyou6422]

What does that mean?

[@charlottela2491]

Sounds about right tbh, "gamers" nowadays just thinks every single games with a similar story theme to MW is propaganda just because "buh it's Making Russia look bad" or "buh America isn't everything" and crap like that. When the word "work of fiction" is literally written all over the gosh darn thing.

[@warcriminal3414]

how it's a work of fiction when they speak about real life event and trying to blame it on someone else?

[@charlottela2491]

@@warcriminal3414 think about it, it's a game, a.work.of.fiction. And besides who would be stupid enough unless you flunked out of college to not remember that in REAL LIFE the Americans were the ones who carpet bombed an entire highway full of retreating IRAQI FORCES that were by many percent of a chance intentionally keeping in distance with civilian vehicles whom btw were mostly abandoned, sure there were like tens of thousands of casualties if i remember correctly but they weren't the real targets they're simply unavoidable collateral damages, victims. To win a war you must be prepared to be drenched in the blood of both the adversaries and the innocents stuck in the middle (you may think i make it sound simple but i don't care, that's on you). But then again back to the game, it's an alternate setting with events being altered to some degree where the Russians are the major evil while the Americans are the lesser evil (why I didn't say good guys is because the story has shepherd and shadow company). So long story short it's a game so expect it to be altered like any other stories.

[@warcriminal3414]

@@charlottela2491 bruh you making excuses Russians are the lesser evil in real life

[@Elcicikos]

This is how you win war.

[@Blue_Sky2077]

bro is just from other universal don’t take to serious 💀

[@arthurgangnon3504]

Wait till someone tells him that JFK never fought zombies in the Whitehouse.

[@TheOnlyGaboh]

😭😭😭

[@J03_M4m4]

Wait, so you're saying that JFK never fought zombies in the Whitehouse alongside Fidel!?

[@Basedapple]

@@J03_M4m4 My childhood has been a lie 😢

[@MC-ns8gb]

Cod gets funding from the military every game has been pro military pro imperialist because that's what happens when you gameify war

[@Neukend]

Changing one fact in an real event and creating an whole new in game event is somewhat different.

[@marcush4741]

My uncle and I are both combat vets. We didnt talk about our experiences until after I came home. He was on the Basra highway. It fucked him up. It ain't right to take this event and say "enemies of the state did this". I will never play this game. Either own what we did or ignore it. Taking it and saying that "the evil russians" did it... it admits it happened. It admits it was evil. It places blame on the people who did it. And then it says outsiders did it. This is inexcusable.

[@TheFrosty_1]

I'm am terribly sorry that ye had to go through such terrible events, your sacrifices shall be remembered, thank you for sharing this

[@sudaifbasharaluqla5963]

To make it worse, in one of their games they intentionally put Quran pages inside a bathroom and in front of a door so you unknowingly step on it. Then removing it after their fans complained, whoever develops these games are not just outright liars, Islamophobic too

[@spehhhsssmarineer8961]

@@sudaifbasharaluqla5963 Dude wtf thats actually shitty as hell.

[@greenman8060]

Killing the retreating Iraqi army was not iillegal, nor was it evil. They were 100% legit military targets attempting to flee and regroup.

[@berserkerrex4411]

@@sudaifbasharaluqla5963 I get where you might be upset, but I think it was more a way to emphasize the cruelty of the setting rather than an outright attack on Islamic people. Hold onto your outrage and think about it for a minute. A bomb goes off in a house where Islam is practiced. The Quran is destroyed by shrapnel, blast pressure, etc. and its pages are scattered throughout the room. The soldiers clearing the house aren't going to be paying attention to a sheet of paper beneath their feet, whether it's religious or not. To them it's just another piece of paper, because their main concern is on not getting shot. From a writer's perspective I completely understand the purpose of putting the Quran pages there, because it is a more subtle aspect of storytelling. It tells of the indiscriminate nature of the Russians in the story and how they view the people of the country they're invading. It's not meant to be an attack on anyone, so taking it as one is just silly.

[@DC42087]

The game says not bases on real life litterally at the start 😂😂

[@cobbyboi2646]

Not propaganda… but a video game 💀

[@django69420]

Highway 80: *exists* *VTOL in your AO*

[@CLOUDYBOI15]

A-10 warthog passes through *booms it oops my bad*

[@whocares427]

I don't think they actually used any VTOLs in 1991? Were there any Harriers involved? That'd be the only thing at the time.

[@django69420]

@@whocares427 🤓

[@thehover6824]

​@@whocares427 They did harriers were built in 70s I believe or late 60s.

[@visassess8607]

@@django69420 🤓

[@NiXx2863]

Isn't the cod series set in a fictional universe that connects to the older MW's where theres a war between the EU, US, and some other against Russia? Edit: Guys i get it Mw2019 and the older cods arent connected by the story at all, only characters and some other stuff

[@nullwalkeranon101]

Yes

[@ForrestKelley]

Yeah I don't know why people compare it to real life most of the time.

[@yami464]

So why bringing real life events in order to modifi them ?

[@piotrwisniewski70]

@@ForrestKelley well, because real life is only thing we have to compare them to first And secondly, event he said about, was supposed to work that person that never heard of that event before, after hearing ,,highway of death" will think about Russians killing civilians, not Americans It's like in some WW2 game we had said that poles killed Jews, not Germans

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Yes, the series does show fictional events but that doesn't mean someone can't be influenced.

[@deathincluded3706]

Destroying retreating forces is legal in laws of war Retreating forces are not surrendering forces, therefore are still hostile Cry me a river

[@costumercare1663]

Remember if you ever feel dull just remember this KZbinr.

[@jrchickenbone]

"Actions or characters depicted in this game are fictional"

[@eminkaanozer2827]

Dude People are believeing games and movies somtimes. If its true I saw most of americans are not even knowing where is china or any other country so they can think this is real lol

[@Bat0541]

@@eminkaanozer2827 That is true of many places the world over my friend, you can grab up someone off the street, show them a map and they couldn't tell you jack shit all about anywhere except where they are. Also, while fictional, it's odd to pick the same landmark, in this case a road, in the same part of the world, made up nation or not, being the middle east, with the EXACT same name, being the Highway of Death, with the basically the same incident, and the only changes that were made were to make the perpetrator an enemy nation of the group that perpetrated the actual real life event, and make it even more heinous then it actually was. It doesn't take that many brain cells to see why the could be considered an issue.

[@electricfeverx976]

Yeah, the nation that the game takes place in does not exist. The Soviets also didn't commit the bombing so it all fits.

[@Retalak]

And I'm sure you felt the same way when they started adding female characters and definitely didn't say "Wow completely historically inaccurate 🤓"

[@nonelast4152]

Taking a real life event and changing the context and perpetrator is not good lmfao, even if the game is fiction. Why not just make up an event to frame russia in a bad light?

[@franksinatra3494]

They got Mexico correct, everything about it that they said about them. My favorite quote was “As long as there’s a war on terror nobody cares about the war on drugs”

[@magicman3163]

I thought that was a stupid quote there isn’t a literal war on drugs because that would be expensive and they have to give 50 billion weekly to Zelinsky who will ask for more

[@odsttrooper3724]

@@magicman3163 My man have you been seeing what’s goin on down in Mexico and southern America? Shit is crazy lmao

[@magicman3163]

@@odsttrooper3724 I’m talking about the US invading to fight drug cartels

[@huitzi-quetzal1422]

​​​@@magicman3163 the US would never care of what is going on here, the war has lasted 16 years and the carteles are not like any insurgents you have fought.

[@magicman3163]

@@huitzi-quetzal1422 that’s why I thought the drug war terrorism war quote was dumb

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

It makes me wonder where these Zeffo guys were when the Rakata Infinite Empire was going on.

[@ennieminee4470]

If the picture is the event your describing you can literally see a tank and multiple military vehicles…so was it people fleeing or was there some type of military convoy on that road?

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Activision have cooperated with the US army to recruit gamers, so yeah, I wouldn't put this shit past them.

[@commenter621]

Wait really?

[@commenter621]

Btw do you mean Army or Military

[@jazzysoggy12]

Here’s the thing though, Highway of Death is not a war crime

[@maqsoodakram7916]

​@@jazzysoggy12 It is a war crime by every definition of a war crime,lying through your teeth,does'nt make it not a war crime.

[@jazzysoggy12]

@@maqsoodakram7916 Speak better English. By every defenition of a war crime, it is not a war crime. A war crime would be shooting unarmed, injured, or civilians. These guys did not disclose civilians, they were retreating to regroup, still completely armed, and did not surrender. Stfu with your BS

[@Pnwmedia]

You should mention that those were American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces that attacked the retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on the night of February 26-27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of many of their occupants. Between 1,400 and 2,000 vehicles were hit or abandoned on the main Highway 80 north of Al Jahra.

[@chengzhou8711]

“Infinity ward is feeding us propaganda” You are only noticing now?

[@mrsafi.m8742]

Fr how have people not caught on that nearly every games' villain/antagonist is Russian and is a threat to the US

[@WhenTheTucker]

@@mrsafi.m8742 we give the Russians way too much credit for being the “big baddies” they are. If anything, this is more Russian propaganda. Like they can’t even successfully invade a neighboring country in real life, no fucking way they’re taking over Washington DC in MW2

[@chengzhou8711]

@@mrsafi.m8742 good old Geopolitical rivalries and ideology and so on

[@BBYG-ig9ix]

Waw, where u play the soviet mw2 where the final boss is american ,ghost where the ennemy is another american, advanced warfare where paramilitary american were the villains. And u can add probably a lot of cod Black ops. But yeah every cod are just american propaganda And without counting first cod where the ennemy was just nazis. And mw3 it was some asshole russian Not russia. So the number of games where u really fight russians government or armys is very low

[@esanahka9284]

The only similarity is the mission name as the real high way of death was a legimate military target. Killing fleeing enemies is not a war crime and even less so if those enemies are using military vehicles

[@blarpnarp]

i wouldve never guessed call of duty would have american propaganda

[@redXkendo]

You just noticed that? 😂 Tell me you've never played Whiskey Hotel without telling me.

[@Meduk]

When I heard the Iranians speak Arabic, that’s when I knew, this is a Sci-fi game 😂

[@ToxinArt]

💀💀

[@poopbutt6241]

They aren’t Iranian

[@Meduk]

@@poopbutt6241 Yeah I know mate. When they spoke Arabic it gave it away.

[@mrlime9526]

@@Meduk There in Urzikstan.

[@matthewjones39]

@@Meduk It’s a fictional country.

[@Mars-jl9su]

When a time traveler kicks a pebble on accident

[@hamzazaman18]

The USA blaming everyone at this point 😂😂

[@putinsneighbor8351]

I’m an Iraqi so I knew about these when I played the mission. It pissed me off.

[@vincentvalentine4401]

I’m surprised no one is pissed on how the lady got you killed during that bomb diffusal part. She literally said on my mark. 3, 2, 1… now! Its 3, 2, 1 go, or it’s just 3, 2, 1 damn it!

[@neonrelmsproductions4224]

Nobody cares about something that small.

[@Ryan-nj9hg]

@@neonrelmsproductions4224 That explains why it’s so hard to find a date!

[@neonrelmsproductions4224]

@@Ryan-nj9hg Sorry to hear that

[@Tyufoe96]

​@@Ryan-nj9hg that pfp is familiar...

[@irishmusicc]

its to trick the player just as a little hoke from the devs

[@Seenic69]

I thought everyone knew this… Thats why they put a disclaimer that things in this game don’t actually apply to history

[@sin3369]

Finally someone can read while you play the game! Bravo!

[@sergiv5613]

Kinda like hiding a disclaimer in a phone 10 page phone contract. They know nobody reads it, and that the majority will assume the story is based in truth. Propaganda is so powerful not because it's proveably true, but because nobody bothers to ask wether it is.

[@sin3369]

@Serg Iv I do believe it says the disclaimer either at the beginning or at the ending credits. Besides its a damn video game? A video game should never be seen, viewed or believed on face value in the first place. As well as thinking this was done by the united States government as a propaganda scheme. Lol

[@newbieboka]

It's almost as if there's several different things in these games where inspiration is taken from history and used in a different context.

[@NoName-ll2mp]

It's plain and simple propaganda man. The fvck you talking? They Show a REAL Event and blame it on russia. How dvmb has one to be?

[@odogaronvevo2920]

not hundred of death, tens of thousands of deaths

[@jesserobinson20]

The confusing thing is that the highway of dearh is not something to be ashamed of.

[@mikewalkey7520]

I remember reading a quote somewhere about the highway of death stating the bombing runs the alliance was performing were "nearly apocalyptic" and I just feel like that's one of the most apt descriptions of that moment in history.

[@EzraMerr]

Coalition not Alliance

[@Fish-ns5ny]

@@EzraMerr 🙄

[@Bat0541]

@@Fish-ns5ny I mean...he's not wrong.

[@FoulMouthActual]

Cod pushing a pro U.S message!? YA DON'T SAY!!!!!!😱😱😱

[@Max-fj3wc]

Lmao, almost like that’s their target audience or something

[@test-ot1fz]

Its almost like its an american game 😱😱😱😱

[@McHallel]

​@@test-ot1fz meanwhile Battlefield a swedish game has anti russian and chinese Propaganda

[@bigpaint3337]

@@McHallel I just need a Russian or Russian and Chinese developed shooter

[@exterminator1107]

Mindblown

[@rosco0369]

A feeble attempt at “Wag the Dog.”

[@SIickTurtIe]

The actual highway of death was us raining down heavy metal on Sadam’s remaining armored and mechanized units. Better destroy them from the air than fight them head to head later on. Us zero losses, the enemy..countless. No propaganda about it, just well executed strategy on an enemy army during a fucking tank battle for shits sake.