Armitage Shanks said:
Sulu said:
are you somehow trying to say that all this is bad? If Russia backed Georgia you know for a fact that the USA would back south ossetia.
I'm saying that Russia aren't the outspoken defenders of self-determination, protecting a weaker nation with no thought of their own benefit or profiteering. Moscow's hands are just as grubby as Tbilisi's. The conflict isn't for South Ossetia's independence, no one cares about that; its for who gets to annex it.
Mighty right, gov'na! Although Georgians did invade first, Russia wouldn't have acted the way they did if not for their interest in the region. But that's just the way the politics work -- there is no country in the would help another out of simple good will and amity, RF and US are not an exclusion.
The Chechen president, backed by the Russian government, is a bloodthirsty bandit (they called themselves "field commanders") and would be a potential terrorist threat if his clan wasn't given complete control over the region.
The Georgian president, backed by NATO as a countermeasure against RF, is a man who has a history of physically eliminating any and all opposition in the government. And it just so happens that he really REALLY wants Osetian territory and believes that he has all the rights to it -- something native South Osetians strongly disagree with.
Ugh, politics.
Anyway, the reaction of Russian conservative media and some gamers was predictable -- it's the same way US natives would have reacted if you played a terrorist gunning down American citizen and then playing as the Russian military defending against an American invasion.
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My own opinion about this debacle as an Ukrainian with Russian roots:
The set-up for the invasion of US was a pretty poor one, it kind of makes you think that the Russians are just sitting there waiting for the right chance to invade America... Relax people, even if the current RF military was capable of this (which it clearly isn't -- they've barely managed the Georgians), they're much more interested in the former USSR countries -- US land is too far to be of any immediate interest. Getting sidetracked here...
Gunning down the Russian military
while playing as an American soldier was a bit unpleasant (it felt as if I could end up on the other side of the gun barrel in such a situation), but if all missions against Russians were by SAS it'd feel a bit better -- I can't hold anything against UK and its citizen, the unapologetic Anglophile that I am.
Thanks to the former SAS being the heroes of the game I was left with a generally positive impression of MW2.
