• bark [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    White Phosphorus won't be in the game.

    https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/15/22279600/six-days-in-fallujah-interview-iraq-war-politics

    The U.S. military has said that it used “shake-and-bake” tactics, a combination of high explosive and white phosphorus rounds that flushed out insurgents from their hardened bunkers in order to destroy them. But using white phosphorus as a weapon, and in close proximity to civilians, would seem to contravene the accepted laws of war. Again, Tamte isn’t interested in litigating what constitutes a war crime.

    “There are things that divide us, and including those really divisive things, I think, distracts people from the human stories that we can all identify with,” Tamte said. “I have two concerns with including phosphorus as a weapon. Number one is that it’s not a part of the stories that these guys told us, so I don’t have an authentic, factual basis on which to tell that. That’s most important. Number two is, I don’t want sensational types of things to distract from the parts of that experience.”

    Just pure troop worshipping propaganda.

    They even capitalize soldier in the game description on Steam.

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Number one is that it’s not a part of the stories that these guys told us, so I don’t have an authentic, factual basis on which to tell that. That’s most important.

      Yeah, no, this guy knows what he is doing; this apolitical bullshit is just a ruse.