Today, an article on GamePolitics points out that the story of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon predicted the events of the new conflict between Georgia and Russia. Any avid reader of Tom Clancy realizes that the things he writes are all plausible scenarios, but even this seems a bit more nail on the head than usual. The people over at The Bulletin recently put up a beefy article detailing the coincidence.
The game's opening sequence features a Russian leadership intent on bringing the former Soviet republics back under its control. The narrator describes a Russian leader eerily similar to Vladimir Putin... As the game's intro opens, a lone 2008 flashes on the screen before the narrator reads the following words: "The year is 2008, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Radical ultranationalists have seized power in Moscow - their goal, the reestablishment of the old Soviet empire... The world holds its breath, and waits.
All the Russians need to know is that if they see an ultra-secret, super maneuverable group of Americans with guile suits they probably have only a matter of seconds to live. They also need to watch out for the ramp and corner “glitching” that Ghosts tend to do when under extreme duress. Since Tom Clancy appears to be on the ball, do you guys know of any other games that have predicted the future?
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1:43 PM on 08.13.2008
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Next thing you know there'll be elite hobos shanking people for government intel . . .
1) Tom Clancy
2) [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/europe/11scene.html?_r=3&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin]The Georgians
The Georgians
Just remember the one thing you need to know to survive the eventual Aerocaust: Music is the Weapon.
ZagZag, who started what is kind of irrelevant. The fact is the russian government feel funny about regions deciding their fate. I find this strange, since surely if Russia were to offload a few of such regions, it would be less of a burden on them and their system. Add the equation of russian oil and gas into that and the wealth they are getting will be shared among themselves.
Besides, Russia have been killing Chechyn's like there's no tomorrow, while other regions look on. What's their excuse.
Anyway, Go Tom Clancy.
Then while moving from one room to another I found the cd. Awesome sauce.
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Not to ruin the prophecy, but it probably wasn't hard to predict since they've said that of every country they invaded.
I have not stated that Russia's hands are clean. What we must realize is that Ossetia is a ninety percent Russian area. Georgia has made repeated efforts to ethnically cleanse the region. Russian peacekeeping troops have been in Ossetia for years and were approved in international agreements so as to protect the citizens of the region from attacks by the Georgian military.
Since Ossetia is "semi-autonomous", Georgia, not Russia, started this war. Georgia invaded Ossetia trying to take control of the region and ethnically cleanse the Russian population. Thousands of people died in this Georgian strike against Ossetia.
This is not what I want to argue about. I want to make the point clear that there is a bigger plan going on here. Wars don't just happen. They have been planned for a year before the public is informed about the conflict. I may be wrong, but I think a strike against Iran is eminent.