Footage From Guy’s Half-Finished Video Game Almost Kicked Off World War III

Screenshot: YouTube

And here I was thinking it would be a Donald Trump tweet that would kick off the next World War.

Way back in 2015, Argentinian video game developer Diego Wasser uploaded footage to YouTube of a video game he had been working on, hoping to get feedback on his work so far. But something tells me Wasser probably didn’t expect to be the reason that another World War got underway. Here’s what occurred according to the NY Post:

On Tuesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry shared what it called “irrefutable” evidence that the US was aiding ISIS fighters in the Middle East. On Twitter, part of its case was a screen shot from a video Wasser published on YouTube in 2015 as he worked on what he hoped would be a career-making breakthrough: a war simulator called “AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron.”

Let’s first check out the footage from Wasser’s game.

And it wasn’t long before folks on the internet figured it all this hoopla was over video game footage, so Russian officials took the original tweet and replaced it with one using different images, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying, “Mistakes happen.” Man, these officials aren’t so bright.

American officials of course took this chance to laugh at the Russians, with Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the ISIS task force, calling Russia’s claims “about as accurate as their air campaign.” Burn.

Wasser never finished his game, but hey, at least he almost made his way into the history textbooks at every high school.

h/t Maxim

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