I thought we were living in a Philip K Dick reality. I was wrong.
We're actually living in a Tom Clancy videogame :
Recent news coverage of the worrying ground war between Russia and Georgia could well leave gamers with a sense of deja vu.The South Ossetia war, which began on August 7, bears a close resemblance to events portrayed in the 2001 Xbox and Playstation 2 game "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon," the first level of which takes place against the backdrop of a struggle between Georgian rebel forces and the legitimate Georgian government in the South Ossetian region.
Ghost Recon's plot follows these skirmishes with a full-scale Russian invasion of the region, a subsequent evacuation of US forces, and ultimately the fall of the Georgian government.
The creators of Ghost Recon had their Georgia-Russia war beginning in April, 2008. The build up to the real war had certainly begun by then, with Russian special forces and psychological warfare experts working away in South Ossetia, helping to build up resistance to the increasingly US-controlled Georgian government, aiming to keep the territory for larger Russia. At the same time, American and Israeli 'military trainers' were flying into Georgia to prepare the locals who would do the actual fighting for the coming conflict.
How did Tom Clancy see the Georgia Vs Russia war playing out?...we can expect the South Ossetia conflict to culminate in a dramatic assault on Red Square and the Kremlin by NATO troops..."Okay, now we know it was all just fiction.
