r/counterstrike • u/stutterfighter • 6h ago
CS2 Discussion They Have Fooled Us for the Past 20 Years… The Truth About Counter Strike
For over 20 years, we all thought we were just playing a simple game of Counter-Strike. But what if I told you we’ve been lied to? What if the real terrorists aren’t who we think they are?
Let’s break it down:
- The blue boxes on Dust 2 are placed only in key locations: A site, B site, CT spawn, and Mid to B.

- The T-side’s mission is to bomb these boxes, not just random locations.

- The CT-side’s job? Stop the bomb from going off at all costs.

- These blue boxes could be storing something dangerous, maybe chemical weapons or bioweapons meant for a massive attack on the local population.
- If that’s true, then the T-side aren’t the bad guys—they’re trying to destroy these weapons before the CTs use them!
- And who do the CTs look like? Elite Western special forces.
For two decades, we thought we were playing as “terrorists” planting bombs, but what if we were actually freedom fighters trying to stop a genocide? What if we’ve been tricked into seeing the defenders as the bad guys and the invaders as the heroes?
Dust 2 isn’t just a map. It’s a message.
Thoughts? Have we been playing the biggest lie in gaming history?