CAL4M1TY said:
This is all speculation answers by the way: 1) Shepperd becomes power hungry and betrays the alliance with the british to further his own goals. He wants to create a world of fear to allow for him to increase his military power. He was given "a blank check" to use what ever means necessary to take out makarov, so that's the first step in his descent into madness (too much power on his hands). He even says at the end that sign ups for the army have dwindled in recent times and by allowing makarov to do what he's done, it'll strike fear and a patriotism amongst the citizens and therefore he can easily influence them. That's why Shepperd took out Ghost and Roach, because they were about to get intel about the location of makarov, who is the symbol that Shepperd planned to use to inspire Americans to fight. 2) I can't really explain this one because I'm not sure what the question was asking. 3) The idea with the terrorist attack isn't that it was by Makarov, the whole point was they were pretending that it was Americans who did the terrorist attack. That's why when you're still in the elevator, he says "no russian", so that there's not a chance that people could think it was Russians that did it. With a dead American amongst the terrorists, I think the idea is that it was to trick people into thinking it was an American attack and that the airport security/russian police managed to "take one down". (So they used the dead body as a representative of the terrorist group, if it was a dead american terrorist, then the group must have been an american terrorist group, right?)
One thing that I didn't quite understand is the Captain price submarine bit. I thought he was meant to prevent the launch of the missile, but at the end of the mission, the dialogue seems to indicate that he wanted it to happen.. |
1- I agree. By letting the Russians get the ACS module and giving the American soldier to Makarov to betray to spark the Russian invasion, he plans on using these events to essentially get support for his forces so he can do whatever he wants. As Price says "if he wins, he'll be able to write history as he see's fit".
2- I'd say the events were all part of Shepard's plan and had been planning on this since the nuke that was detonated in the first Modern Warfare which killed 50,000 soldiers under his command. Price going rogue and turning the missle into an EMP wasn't what Shepard wanted. Regardless, he would have still gotten what he wanted with the support from America (Secretary of Defense said, "You warned us, we should have listened") and the the world (the soldiers now want to attack Russia and burn down Moscow, Shepard said "There will be no shortage of patriots")
3- Exactly, makarov knew about the American in his ranks the entire time. Like I said above, I believe Shepard had let the Russians get the ACS module and then gave the American soldier, who he hand picked himself, to Makarov so he would be betrayed and used to spark a Russian invasion.
