COD/and other war games being used as US- NATO propaganda:  "Speaking as someone who  grew up on military games, then served during  GWOT: This is exactly what conditioning looks like. I joined partly because games made military service look exciting, purposeful, heroic. The reality was different—but that was a limited, regional conflict with relatively contained casualties for the US. What we're being primed for now is fundamentally different in scale.   The key difference: GWOT: Volunteer force, counterinsurgency, manageable casualties What this game depicts: Near-peer conventional war, mass mobilization, industrial-scale combat Battlefield 6 isn't preparing kids for deployments—it's normalizing the idea of total war with Russia by 2028. The NATO consultation, the HUD interfaces matching actual defense contractor systems (Anduril, etc.), the near-term timeframe while we're actually on the edge of NATO-Russia confrontation—none of this is accidental.   From personal experience: The psychological gap between "playing soldier" and actual combat is massive—but games narrow that gap just enough to make enlistment feel natural. It worked on my generation for Iraq/Afghanistan. Now they're doing it again, but for something exponentially more catastrophic.   The kids playing this won't just be desensitized to violence—they'll be pre-conditioned to accept mass mobilization as necessary and inevitable. That's not entertainment. That's preparation of the battlefield—and the battlefield is the public consciousness of military-age males. Grossman's On Killing documented how the military had to overcome soldiers' natural resistance to killing through conditioning. Video games do the same work—at scale, for free, marketed as fun. We saw this playbook with America's Army. This is the same thing, but for a war that could kill millions instead of thousands. If you're young and this looks exciting—I'm telling you from experience: question why this specific scenario, at this specific time, with this specific official involvement, is being sold to you.  "