I played the games as a teenager because it’s what all the super cool American kids did.

There are definitely threads of that in the game, but it for sure glorifies American/British military action in West Asia and let’s face it, a massive amount of CoD players are either literal teenagers or young adults that have very limited world experience and knowledge of geopolitics.

I've never heard this take before but it sounds like cope tbh.

Admittedly it's been years since I played the game but I played enough when I was still in my Western Chauvinist phase that I can basically flawlessly remember every detail of the campaign and from what I can remember none of it felt like criticism at all. If that really was the intention then I think it was a poor attempt, especially given the message appears to have been lost on just about everyone.

Deconstruction aka a tepid “war is bad”. Riveting, never done before. So daring.