Russo-Georgia War Predicted in 2001 Video Game

Now this is some kind of uncanny coincidence.

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. Ghost Recon almost got the timescale right, too: the game's imaginary events begin in April 2008, just a few months before the real war kicked off.

So all we need now is the fall of the Georgian government and the game will be like Nostradamus. I think someone should check if Tom Clancy is looking into a pool of water in order to make the premise for his games.