ReiverCorrupter said:
I agree it doesn't make that much sense, maybe everyone decides not to use nukes because it would just be the end of everything. Kind of the "better red than dead" attitude, "Ok, there's no point in us destroying the world and ending human history just because we lost to you."
This argument doesn't hold much ground, and in fact means that Russia has nothing to gain from this as well. I'm pretty sure that mutually assured destruction (MAD) is still a thing, so the best-case scenario for Russia is that America, with its dying breath, launches a world-ending salvo of nuclear warheads. Soooo? it?s a suicide mission, then?
Also, in the single player, price launches a nuke that causes an EMP (not even going to start discussing about how he launched a nuclear warhead on his own, how he caused it to detonate in space and how there is no safeguard against someone just casually walking into a nuclear submarine and launching a nuke). But if the Russians were serious about their ?kill America? plan from the get-go, wouldn't they probably launch EMP and nuclear strikes of their own as a precursor to the invasion? But then, American missile silos are hardened against just such attacks, to ensure MAD, so Russia still loses.
Why do you think that the Soviet Union never engaged the U.S.A, and vice versa, in any combat aside from proxy wars? Because they were fully aware that whatever attack they're going to launch, it's going to end in a global apocalypse in a matter of hours.
ReiverCorrupter said:
Makarov didn't give them info to invade the U.S., he gave them the defense codes so that they could invade without alerting the defense network. Makarov was the one who killed the airport, but the Russians didn't know that, they thought it was the U.S., hence why they invaded, and hence why the level is called "No Russian"... because they only speak English in order let them think that it was Americans.
Why did anyone, ANYONE bother believing anything Makarov just said?
Makarov is an internationally known figure of menace, then, with a Russian military record. So when he confidently machineguns his way through the airport without even bothering to put on a mask, are we to believe that the Russian authorities weren?t able to identify him from security camera footage?
Instead, Russia blames a nobody CIA agent found dead at the scene who was killed by a point-blank pistol shot to the head. That doesn?t raise any red flags at all? The obvious conclusion is that the whole thing was an American plot, and that a full-scale invasion of the continental US is the appropriate response. The transition to the Takedown favela mission begets more confusion, such as: how did Shepherd tie the shell casings to Rojas? Meticulous analysis of the cutscene indicates that he actually re-created a 3D model of a shell casing from security camera footage, which was sufficiently hi-rez to make a match against a big bullet database. So the Russians, who had the actual shell casings to analyze, couldn?t figure that out? The security footage was crisp enough to recreate minute detail on a spent shell casing, but not of sufficient quality to identify Makarov?s face.
Conclusion: Makarov?s face is smaller than a bullet.
ReiverCorrupter said:
Oh, and the entire network got brought down by the EMP blast set off by a nuke in the upper atmosphere fired from a Russian sub based taken over by Captain Price in order to stop the Russian invasion. The 'satellite' you are talking about is the international space station, and the purpose of that was just to show you first hand the impact of the EMP, which WOULD take out the vast majority of the communications on the east coast, along with irradiating and probably killing everyone beneath it (which is the actual part of the thing that doesn't make sense).
No, it gets taken down because of one downed ACS module that the Russians recovered from a downed sattelite.
I wasn't talking about the EMP, nor was I talking about the international space station.
