Why didn the assorted nuclear powers in MW 2 just Nuke Em?
Russia wants to kill as many Americans – nukes are pretty good for that sort of thing. America wants to counter Russia’s Easy Logistics ground invasion. Gee, if only we had some kind of way to respond to a war with Russia… By all rights, any game with MW 2’s storyline would quickly turn into a Fallout 3 clone. • The Ultranationalists are psychotic, but they’re not suicidal. Mutually assured destruction doesn’t have the word “mutual” in there for nothing. • Yeah, they’d never do a thing they already tried to do once at the end of the previous game. • Zakhaev did what he did more because of his sheer batfuck insanity combined with grief over the death of his son. Judging by their actions in-game, the Ultranationalists controlling Russia are at least a little less insane. There’s also the fact that, at this point in time, they control all of Russia; in COD 4, the Ultranationalists were still in a civil war with the Loyalists, so they could have gotten away with nuking the uS without ris
