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Russian Embassy in UK warns about chemical war threat from the Global Liberation Army
RUSSIAN EMBASSY TWEETS 'COMMAND AND CONQUER' SCREENSHOT TO ILLUSTRATE WAR IN SYRIAhttp://www.popsci.com/russian-embassy-just-showed-video-game-villains-in-syria?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
By Kelsey D. Atherton Posted May 12, 2016
The Russian government is not known for being particularly straightforward with facts. Russia is currently backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his brutal, 5-year-long war to regain control of his country from rebels. As part of that effort, Russia’s government and state-owned media want to discredit the people fighting against Assad. Those people include the Islamic State (ISIS), so there’s certainly a lot of unsavory characters for Russia to point to. Instead, today the Russian embassy to the United Kingdom decided to tweet out an allegation of extremists with chemical weapons, using a screenshot from the popular computer game series Command and Conquer.
It is so obviously from a video game that Russia stamped “image used for illustration purposes only” on a picture of a pixelated truck with a biohazard symbol on top of its cargo. The picture comes up second in a Google image search for “Bomb Truck,” and the exact image used is the “Bomb Truck” unit from the game Command and Conquer: Generals, according to the Command and Conquer wikia.
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Will Electronic Arts be the cause of World War III (or is it World War IV)?
