The CIA has released a new Call of Duty PsyOp /s

Black Ops 7 campaign review: Maybe the worst Call of Duty campaign ever

I had to check and see what country it targeted this time.

Google AI overview:

The country that represents the Mediterranean city of Avalon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the fictional nation of Avalon, which is depicted as a city-state and a former crime syndicate based in the Mediterranean region. While it is a fictional location, the city’s in-game storyline and characteristics, particularly its former criminal organization, are inspired by real-world locations like Monaco, and it has historical ties to France and Italy. 

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Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

from the pew-pew-pew dept

Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally over-militarized and at least slightly a little too trigger happy, especially when it comes to engaging minority communities. If you somehow think that there isn’t at least a perception problem among the public here, then you probably don’t need to keep reading the rest of this post, because it’s not going to make sense to you.

Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

Related:

History of Racism in Peoria

[2022] Chaos Agent – Yuri Bezmenov

Yuri Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada in the ‘70s, and his warnings about disinformation have made him a posthumous star on social media. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal his toxic relationship with Canada’s intelligence services.

Chaos agent (archived)

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Call Of Duty Trailer Recklessly Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory (archived)

The person interviewing Bezmenov in the footage is far-right conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin, who has since made a name for himself in HIV/AIDS denialism and alt-right recruitment. As a member of the John Birch Society, a famously anti-Communist organization focused on establishing a more conservative government in the United States, it makes sense that Griffin would peddle Bezmenov’s claims about Soviet interference by way of social progress without any critical analysis. In the Call of Duty trailer, Activision presents Bezmenov’s words bereft of this important context.

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda

New Call of Duty game includes mission to ‘assassinate Qassem Soleimani’

The latest Call of Duty video game includes a mission very similar to the real-life assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, according to gamers with early access to the new installment of the franchise.

New Call of Duty game includes mission to ‘assassinate Qassem Soleimani’

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Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda

How Is US Pop Culture Used Against Venezuela?

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda

Black Propaganda

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda (archived)

Yuri Bezmenov was working with the CIA when he made that interview with G. Edward Griffin* that the Alt-Right has been spamming for years. That interview is prominently featured in the trailer for the next Call of Duty game.

Related:

HOW THE PENTAGON AND CIA PUSH VENEZUELA REGIME-CHANGE PROPAGANDA IN VIDEO GAMES

*Griffin is a Bircher.