Yesterday afternoon I was thinking about a top list of the greatest superpowers in Call of Duty, and a question popped into my head: Why doesn't anyone talk about which version of the United States is the most powerful in the series?
Something that not many people mention is the fact that the United States in the Ghosts line literally created an orbital bombing satellite in record time, withstood bombings that killed approximately 27 million people in a matter of minutes, and several of its states were reduced to dust and wiped off the map. Even so, they managed to fight the Federation, even reaching a stalemate in the war, where neither side made any progress for several months. This leads me to think that the United States in Ghosts had a much more overwhelming and powerful force than the US or Russian versions in Modern Warfare OG.
The Advanced Warfare version was too… useless. Starting with the fact that they lost 6,000 exoskeleton-equipped soldiers in Korea in four hours, against North Korean soldiers without exoskeletons, continuing with their inability to repel KVA attacks on their own territory and their need for Atlas, then prioritizing morality and international law just when they were on the verge of capturing Hades and refusing to authorize his capture in Greece, then failing to stop an attack that destroyed the most important bridge in the United States and not communicating with the Third Fleet beforehand to warn them not to go there, and then being completely repelled, even in coalition, by the Manticore… Well, none of that reflects well on the US military in Advanced Warfare, and I think it carries weight, since the United States became so accustomed to Atlas solving their problems that they ended up forgetting how to fix them. It was literally Sentinel almost single-handedly that saved the United States from a bombing raid. And I almost forgot that they could have overthrown Irons by launching a targeted attack against him instead of doing everything to simply tarnish Atlas's reputation. They're incredibly advanced but also incredibly useless, and that's saying something, because Advanced Warfare holds a special place in my heart.
So, I'd like to hear your opinion.