No Russian

In Doctor Delwiche’s writing Section 2: Discourse and Ideology, he informs the reader about how the use of video games can impact people’s opinions on a wide range of issues. He discusses how one such video game “deliberately taps into the immersive game context and in the hopes of recruiting young Americans into the army” (Delwiche 91). Video games like all forms of media can be used a vehicles of propaganda. I argue that video games can and are used as propaganda that affects the way people think and perceive the world.

The reason why video games make such successful vehicles for propaganda is due to the way in which it immerses you into the situation. Playing the right video game can change the way you think about a subject for better or for worse. PLaying certain video games can make you more or less likely to join the armed forces and others can affect what kinds of food you eat.

Call of Duty is most likely the most famous example of video game propaganda. As one of the most successful video game franchises ever Call of Duty has impacted people’s perception on a large sway of subjects.Call of Duty is a first person shooter that has focussed on World War 2, Vietnam, and imaginative wars in the future that include a world war between the United States and Russian and the United States fighting a confederation that consists of everything south of the Rio Grande.


Call of Duty has at times been criticized for the violence of its video games. The most famous outcry occurred due to a level known as “No Russian” in the game Modern Warfare 2. Along with the main antagonist of the series, while playing as an undercover agent for the United States you partake in the massacre of civilians at a Russian airport. The title of the mission is “No Russian” this is so that the terrorists who commit the act will be viewed as Americans in origin instead of as Russian insurgents. This is known as a false flag attack in the intelligence world. The Russian government blames the United States for the attack and launches a retaliatory attack and World War 3 begins.

The mission acts a piece of propaganda in that it affects the way people think about worldly events. Due to that mission, every time there is a terrorist attack anywhere in the world I wonder if there is a possibility that the attack could be a false flag attack. This is especially true if the attack occurs in a part of the world that is already under tension. This is how a piece of propaganda has affected me. Propaganda does affect the way people view the world.

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