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** The only people to mention the sign and countersign are Cpl. Dunn, who shouts out "star" and the Ranger runner, who is the one who doesn't know the countersign. Later, either Foley or Dunn shout the sign out to a group of passing russians, then open fire. If Foley in fact doesn't know the countersign, there's nothing in the game to indicate it.

********** Again, why would it be difficult to believe he would have spindoctors on the staff? THe man has the allegiance of at least millions of followers throughout the old USSR and is fighting a savage conventional war to dominate the rest. This was no small, uneventful coup, so there is every reason to believe that he WOULD have quite a chunk of resources devoted to PR/propaganda. And as for the Arms Dealer issue, even if we assume that he was ever truly mercenary (just another two bit thug) rather than a revolutionary to begin with, he could simply state that he has reformed and is now serving Mother Russia or some such tripe. Or he could simply gloss over that point in its entirety. I mean, how many people really know Zakhaev's background or life story to begin with? And how many would be in his intended audience?

** Good point. My only theory is that the Russians were expecting something, because they launch a full scale invasion a day later. Leaving out the fact that most international incidents take a little while before war begins ernest(if at all), no nation on earth has the capability of moving from "peace" to "Full scale war footing" in 24 hrs. I suspect the russians were waiting for an excuse. I also wonder if this has something to do with the fact Zakhaev has somehow become a Russian national hero in the past 5 years(despite being an enemy of the russian government).
** See a few points below in the discussion about why America never tries to prove its innocence. The answer is exactly the same; it's because Russia is no longer an ally of the United States, and the Ultranationalists have, through martyring Imran Zakheav, gained considerable if not absolute influence over the Russian government. Makarov doesn't expect anyone to believe one CIA agent was responsible for all of this, there are plenty of witnesses to the attack, they'll just assume the three who got away were other Americans. As far as Allen's cover goes, because Makarov can influence the government, he can easily have the red tape sidestepped to start playing the blame game as fast as possible without actually gathering any of the evidence; it's not like he's lying, the body ''is'' American, if anyone ever does try to call the government out on not conducting a proper investigation, the result will just be the government saying "Fine, here's your investigation. Oh look, we weren't lying, it's an American." As far as why the Russian people would believe Americans would do this; the Russian populace ''doesn't know'' that the Ultranationalists are bad people; it's ''Zakheav'' International Airport, for crying out loud. This is why the intro spends so much time telling you that Zakheav has been turned into a national hero. To the public, the Ultranationalists are a ''political party,'' and this was actually established back at the end of the first game, before they even came to power. To the public, the attack looks like what it would look like to Americans if a gang of Russians shot up an American airport as a statement against the Democratic party.

*** And, to end the matter, if the Ultranationalists were somehow too incompetent or lacked THAT much clot with the regime to do any of those aforementioned things, the airport was absolutely secure, and probably would have been for an hour of so. They could have simply carted off any casualties they took and left Allen to take the fall for it.

* Why did Captain Price launch the nuke anyway? Sure it destroyed most of the Russian Air Power over DC, but then again without resupply (which would be almost impossible for Russia) the DC invaders would have been destroyed within the week thanks to any number of assaults by American forces. Plus the fact the nuke would have knocked out most of the American satellites in the area, knocked out most of the power plants on the Eastern Seaboard, and would dump the entire East Coast of the United States into the dark ages for years to come.

** Because the Ultranationalists have spent the past fives years using Zakheav as a martyr to turn Russia against the west; Russia is no longer an ally of the United States, they may not even have any diplomatic ties left (this is why the intro spends time showing the dramatic unveiling of a statue of Zakheav in all his glory; we as the viewer know how awful the man was, the Russian populace as a whole think he was a saint gunned down by the West.) It's possible the Ultranationalists even have direct influence in the Russian government by that time.

** This game is not Anti-American in the sense that it wishes to burn American flags but it is Anti-American or more so Pro-British (and wanting to say Britain is so much better than the US) to the point where Americans are complete and udder cannon fodder, or just plain dicks that kill their allies for no apparent reason. Main bad guys? Americans. Main Villain? A American. Who's country couldn't defend or fight its way out of a paper bag? America. Who has saved the day the past two games? The British. The two characters that have survived the past two games, what nationality are they? They're British. Now tell me this, two British special forces guys clear a base of a couple hundred Russians and then clear another Russian base with more people in it and but with three more British soldiers but a couple thousand Americans can't take back their capitol building or a couple hundred thousand Americans can't take back their country. Also lets not forget the Americans in Afghanistan talking about how awesome Soap and Ghost and how they beat the Delta Force guys in the pit.

** 2)How the hell did [[strike: Soap]] Price get the nuclear missile launch codes? Seriously, doesn't he need alternate universe Putin's go ahead to launch Soviet nukes? If one SAS soldier can launch a nuke anytime he damm well pleases then the entire Modern Warfare 1 was a waste. The bad guys could have just waltzed over to their nearest soviet sub pen
* Don't Russian subs ''only'' need the launch keys, or am I confusing this with how the Brits protected their nukes with nothing but bicycle locks until recently because it was insulting to the officers in charge of them to say they were untrustworthy enough for better security to be necessary? In any case, the way Price has been acting, the idea that he forced the sub's officers to do it at gun and torture-point makes perfect sense.

* How exactly did Captain Price get locked up in a Gulag? Also, I don't get why Makarov hates Price so much; sure, Price shot Zakehav's arm off, but Soap is the one who actually put him in the ground.

**** In large part because it is in nobody's interest save that of the US (and maybe the more extended West in the long, long run) to widen the war. The Russians have GOT to realize that there is no way they could possible take a naval task force sufficient to attack Washington DC to the Atlantic intact with NATO's European members dominating the coast. As such, unless the amphibious attack is some strange kamikaze mission, Moscow is going to avoid antagonizing NATO until after the US is gone (after which NATO will likely bee dead anyway). And NATO has to realize that going into war for a nation implicated in an incident like what we see in No Russian would be a public disaster regardless of what the government and military commands would think, and besides, the Russians are transporting an invasion force right PAST them to try and attack the mainland. Now, in the long run, it would probably be beneficial for NATO and the EU to attack Russia while the Russian military is trying to invade the US, but that requires strategic foresight in excess of what our average elected official probably has, so they see no downside in hanging out until the battle of the titans is over.

* How did the Russians take over the eastern seaboard? Lets not even get into the logistics of it. How did they manage to fully mobilize and transport millions of troops across the atlantic without the American's noticing a huge fleet of ships? And keep in mind, this was after a civil war. Its pure statstics: US Army (including reserves): 3,000,000 Russian Army: 1,000,000, an extra 2 million in reserves that they would not be able to mobilize for anything other than home defense. The Americans also have better technology and a much larger air force and Navy, as well as more places to launch assualts from. You could technically argue that the Russians took us off guard, but what exactly were they planning to accomplish? They don't have the resources to sustain an army of a million soldiers for more than a few weeks without a supply line, so every single soldier they sent would die eventually, especially considering that the Americans have the homefield advantage. Best case scenario, they kill a couple million civilians and soldiers and then get pushed back, then get invaded by the resurgent and highly mobile American Military. The Americans are probably throwing human decency out the window now, so they will probably slaughter hundreds of thousands of more civilians. None of this would've happened if you just let that one terrorist attack slide, or just respond with a KGB operation or something.

* What it bugs me is that, despite there is a Modern Warfare JBM page, all the JBM content in this page is all about the Modern Warfare sub series. Is the main series so good (in my opinion it is) that all the JBM has to be around MW and MW2? it just bugs me!

*** I feel the need to mention that there were only ''six'' men in the helicopter at the end of "Blackout" (Soap, Gaz, Price, Nikolai and the two pilots), yet at the start of "Hunted" there are ''eight'' (Soap, Gaz, Price, Nikolai, the two pilots "Paulson" and another {{Redshirt}}.). SoYeah...

**Some theorize a HandWave - its a training session between the two forces. Obviously, there's no explanation for the actual bleeding and dying that comes out of it... HandWave, SoYeah.