{"id":321772,"date":"2026-01-18T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321772"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:06:25","slug":"did-the-2013-video-game-call-of-duty-ghosts-predict-the-venezuelan-raid-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321772","title":{"rendered":"Did the 2013 Video Game \u201cCall of Duty: Ghosts\u201d Predict the Venezuelan Raid of 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vigilant Citizen \u2013 Jan 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Call of Duty<\/em> is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, with only <em>Mario<\/em> and <em>Tetris<\/em> surpassing its popularity. While the first game, released in 2003, took place during World War II, the series later shifted to modern and futuristic settings.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Activision released <em>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/em>, an installment set in the \u201cnear-future\u201d \u2026 which is around 2026. And one of the missions in this game involves a U.S. Special Operations Forces unit infiltrating a secure location in Caracas, Venezuela, to arrest a person of interest. Needless to say, the timing and the similarities between the game and real-life events raised some eyebrows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-321773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ghost2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"593\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ghost2.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ghost2-480x458.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 622px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Posts on social media highlighted the bizarre parallels between the game and the Venezuelan operation on January 3rd, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While the X post above is not 100% accurate (players do not capture the Venezuelan dictator), the game nevertheless accomplishes an important task: Predictive programming. It planted the idea that a military operation in Venezuela could happen, mainly due to its important oil reserves. Here\u2019s a look at the links between <em>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/em> and the Venezuelan raid.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/vigilantreport\/did-the-2013-video-game-call-of-duty-ghosts-predict-the-venezuelan-raid-of-2026\/\">Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2013 video game \u201cCall of Duty: Ghosts,\u201d military operatives infiltrate Caracas, Venezuela, in the dead of night to capture a key figure. And it happened in the \u201cnear future\u201d of around 2026. Did they know something we didn\u2019t? Vigilant Citizen looks at the many \u201cpredictions\u201d of the Call of Duty series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":321775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321774,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321772\/revisions\/321774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}