Especially the campaigns, and especially how certain characters and moments are presented in the campaigns.
It's like right on the borderline of being a chuddy glorification of the military and being an absolute pisstake of things that chuddily glorify the military, and I genuinely can't work out which way it's trying to go with it.
It's not intentionally subversive, but you can hardly describe any mission in the latest one without sounding like you're satirizing American cold war beliefs, like the soviets having a super secret facility in the middle of Siberia, except it turns out it's actually a sound stage where they plan Red Dawn style invasions of small Midwestern towns.
Or every single Vietnamese person having a machine gun or RPG ready to shoot down your helicopter, including random people who were canoeing down the river or just standing in the middle of rice paddies.
Or the very first mission where some guy just shows up in a bar in belgium and is like "Hey, I got the address of some bad guys", and you sneak up to the back window of some random apartment and just start machine gunning a bunch of dudes watching a soccer game.
Dude...
Holy shit is COD implying that the Brabant Killers are confirmed CIA Gladio op? That's honestly kinda based.
That's the thing, they justify it by everyone within 3 blocks trying to kill you afterwords because it turns out they were trying to help Turkey sell weapons to East Germany (yeah, it makes no sense).
Other 'almost satire' moments include:
The US hiding h-bombs in every single European city (and trying to smuggle one into Saigon just before the end of the war)
The US torturing and MKultra'ing the player, then torturing and almost killing them again, then asking for help, then killing them to tie up loose ends.
Ronald Reagan respecting your pronouns and questioning the legality of his actions as he asks you to protect democracy by invading Cuba and killing their scientists.
I suppose these mult million dollars games are written by Committee™ so that's probably why all of this sounds weird af lol