Bezombia wrote:The Matthew Islands wrote:This is terrible because it assumes that literally like every intelligence agency was asleep and would have failed to notice a Liutenant General in the US army buddying up to literally the worlds most wanted terrorist.
This was all explained in "Loose Ends".
Specifically, that there weren't any. The only physical records that Makarov and Shepherd ever had any contact was in the bunker on the Russia-Georgia border. You know, the one that half the 141 dies retrieving? The whole point of "Loose Ends" was that Shepherd knew that they would eventually catch up to him, so he eliminated the only two threats to him (the data in the bunkhouse, and the 141 | Soap and Price were expected to die in Afghanistan).
In cast you missed it, the US has been at war since 2001. It wouldn't turn any heads to see a US general travel to a field of war considering he's, you know, a US general.
Erm I think its fair to assume that a US general would most certainly be tracked while visiting a field of war. I don't think you could just say 'I'm going for a wander, then sneak behind the bike shed to meet the worlds most wanted terrorist.
That entire level was fucking stupid. Not because of the shooting civilians bit, but because of much of a weak reason it was for war. The IRA used American Armalites and got money from stupid yanks through NORAID but that wasn't a reason to just straight up declare war on America. Once again it rely's on the complete absence of just about every intelligence officer ever.
Yeah but the IRA was the IRA. The entire fucking point of "No Russian" was that Allen's body was left at the scene, so the only evidence Russia had of who was behind it was an American CIA agent disguised as a Russian soldier.
Makarov then shouted in the streets for three days (Russia was already "ready" for war ever since Zakhaev) before the invasion.
It was all a false flag, as I said before, and like most false flags it worked.
Yeah of course, the CIA totally had absolutely no back up plan in case of such an eventuality. And if the worlds most wanted terrorist says it was the US then is must be true.
1: Why was the US only relying on 1 system of early warning?
2: Why did nobody notice the entire Russian military mobilising?
3: How did Europe manage to miss the Russian military heading over Europe towards America.
4: Why the US navy not notice the Russian army heading to the East Coast? Or the Coast guard?
5: How did Russia transport all those troops to the east coast in like, a day?
6: How did Russia achieve air superiority over the East Coast?
7: Why did no other NATO country not notice?
1: Your question is wrong. It's explicitly said that they aren't. It's also explicitly said that every system they have went down before "Wolverines!" because the ACS was hacked prior to its recovery.
2: They had already mobilized back in MW1.
3: Why do you assume they took a straight line to Virginia? Not even passenger planes go in a straight line to their destination.
4: Planes flying higher than the human eye can see, and certainly higher than the human eye can shoot.
5: By flying them? How do you think?
6: Because America didn't really have an air force following the ACS incident. This is all integral to the plot of "Wolverines!", I'm surprised you missed it.
7: They did. Russia invaded them too, later on, which resulted in Russia losing the war. But that's outside of MW2 - I should reiterate I suppose that the entirety of MW2 takes place in about one week.
1: If a satellite carrying a piece of equipment capable of crippling the US military's entire early warning system fell into a hostile country and then was found to have been actively tampered with (It was being tested by the Russians) I doubt that the Americans would just shrug and say "Oh well, I'm sure its still solid guys." Plus why did Canada not notice it? They have their own systems that are most certainly not tied into the US system.
2:No, they had mobilised to fight a civil war, which had ended thus implying that a demobilisation process must have happened other wise other countries might have though "Isn't it suspicious that a Russia controlled by Ultra-nationalists still has its military mobilised? We should probably keep an eye on that."
3: Seeing as how the invasion somehow took place like a day after the massacre its safe to assume that they must have taken a pretty direct route. You can't just sneak an invasion force across the Atlantic ocean ffs.
4: Erm most of the US navy has radar/sensors that wouldn't actually be linked into the network that was somehow crashed by the hacked ACS.
5: By flying them. Yes, the Russians were able to transport an army capable of invading the East Coast of America less than a day after a declaration of war by flying them over.
6: Okay, let me re-phrase. How did the Russians manage to get enough fighter jets to establish some form of air superiority, all the way across the Atlantic, undetected, then get said jets to perform a combat mission, then obviously return to Russia for refuelling. Unless of course you are going to claim that Russia just let them plummet into the sea or that in the year or so since MW1 a Russia recovering from a civil war was able to embark on some kind of miraculous re-armement that included an immense fleet of air to air refuelling tankers the likes of which the world has never seen.
7: So they noticed and none of them informed the Americans. Not even the British, who were balls deep in the whole thing anyway with TF141.
That entire mission and sequence was just awful.[/quote]Of course that didn't actually happen due to the unplanned survival of Soap and Price, and the events of "Contingency" - everyone ended up losing because of it.
How?[/quote]
A British Army SAS captain, who was held prisoner in a Russian Gulag for a significant period of time, had some gained to the knowledge to successfully activate a Russian Nuclear missile from a Russian Nuclear Submarine and had somehow managed to gain the activation codes for aforementioned missile and bypass all the 'two man rule' type fail safes and then destroyed the entire power grid of the East Coast of the USA. Also likely to include a significant part of the Canadian power grid as well.
Not even Tom Clancy was this bad.
Even though you are probably trolling I still find it amazing that you can go from almost breaking into hysterics of Elite Dangerous' lack of offline mode and then act like MW plot was some kind of subtle master piece.
