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.
I need to replay it to refresh myself on details of the story, just to see how fucking nuts it is through the lens of 2021.
I had honestly forgotten about the parts focusing on the actual Russian military forces, because most of that stuff made no god damn sense anyways. They can barely annex a postage stamp off the corner of an ally nation without almost starting a world war, the fuck kind of advance planning are they gonna secretly do to conquer like five times their own habitable landmass so quickly that the US military is unable to respond effectively?
EDIT: Nevermind about invading the way I mentioned, they invaded the eastern coast of the US? How the hell does that make any sense?
MW3 was even more absurd in that it portrayed Makarov as a terrorist unaffiliated with the Russian government, that the Good Russian President actually wanted to make peace, but also the Russian Army was launching a massive simultaneous invasion of every major city in Western Europe preluded by chemical weapons attacks staged by Makarov's terrorists.
Basically they kept doubling down on the plot making absolutely no logical sense. The plot became the filler that linked together a series of Cool Setpieces.