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Jason Wojnar

Jason Wojnar is a freelance journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Wojnar writes for TheGamer.com, GameRant.com, and Cigalah Group.

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Opinion: Call of Duty's Modern Warfare III whitewashes the Kremlin's crimes

by Jason Wojnar
I started the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III" video game campaign on the evening of Nov. 10, 2023, in my apartment in Kyiv with the aim of finishing it in a single night. I was two hours in when Star Wars star Mark Hamill’s familiar voice let out an urgent warning from my phone: “Attention, air raid alert. Proceed to the nearest shelter. Don’t be careless. Your overconfidence is your weakness.” Being used to this by now, I proceeded to play the rest of the campaign with my headphones off so