The Tom Clancy Conspiracy

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Anyone out there think about Tom Clancy being a major source of inspiration for the Vulcans, the group around Condeleezza Rice?

First out, Tom Clancy's game Ghost Recon came out in 2001, and was about a future war between Russia and South Ossetian separatists against Georgia, and the very war took place in august 2008.

As Rudyard Kipling was the writer for the British Empire, Tom Clancy is the writer for the American Empire. What is clear, is that several of his narratives can be directly connected to planned and spinned world events. Like the big power plays Clancy describes, and even an airliner being crashed into the Capitol to trigger a war.

I think Rice realized McCain would not be elected, or the Vulcans would not continue in their present offices, if they did not cause an event just before the final US Presidential Race that would allow McCain to shine in all his jingoism and make outlandish Obama look like an unpatriotic and weak-willed civilian leader with no military experience. I think Rice talked the impressionate Shakashvili and his juvenile defense minister born as late as 1978, with no military background whatsoever. Then she made a backroom deal with Putin, or someone else in the Russian Administration we do not know about, to let the Russians get Abkhasia and South Ossetia in return for letting McCain win the election.

For the Vulcans, the hardliners in the DC administration, the loss of the US presidency to Obama, is a much bigger loss than the position in Georgia, as oil and gas prices are regulated by markets anyways. Also, deepening the divide between Russia and Europe also fits the Vulcan agenda. Certainly the entire Georgian Olympic War, as I call it (after both the country and possibly half-witted instigator George W, triggered in connection with the Beijing Olympics as a parallel to the Spanish Civil War situation during the Berlin Olympics in 1936), seems to be masterminded in advance, as a fan-boy like Shakashili probably was encouraged to repossess South Ossetia, and did not boil this up on his own.
 
Well first off, the plane in Executive Orders hit the Capitol Rotunda, and killed the entirely of Congress, the President, VP, and most of the cabinet. The Capitol Building was not attacked on September 11.

Second, I don't see why Clancy's ability to predict the future (I mean, come on. Who in 2001 who knew about the Ossetian situation couldn't have seen how this war would happen and play out?)

Third, I think you're mad.
 
Haha, I wrote this in jest, as there are so many conspiracy nuts there in the states.
 
Haha, I wrote this in jest, as there are so many conspiracy nuts there in the states.

Speaking as an official representative of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and our sister organization, Inver Brass, I regret to inform you that orders for your termination have been approved. Please do not mind the black helicopter hovering overhead. Maybe this will teach you not to reveal our secrets.
 
Kind of funny. When the whole Russia-Georgia War started, the first thing I thought of was to play Ghost Recon.
 
Speaking as an official representative of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and our sister organization, Inver Brass, I regret to inform you that orders for your termination have been approved. Please do not mind the black helicopter hovering overhead. Maybe this will teach you not to reveal our secrets.

Due to you confirming the existance of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I regret to inform you that orders for your termination have been approved by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy :)
 
Due to you confirming the existance of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I regret to inform you that orders for your termination have been approved by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy :)

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Haha, very funny indeed.

Then again, I believe the war was spinned for a higher purpose, Vulcans reelection and Russian reassertion, like a Jalta II Treaty. I think both US and Russia is wary about the stronger European Union.
 
No, google the Vulcans, it is the group around Bush that met in Birmingham, Alabama, where the tallest full metal cast statue (iron) in the entire US is located. It is the home city of Condeleezza Rice, and they named their group after that statue, due to her leading the group that crafted the policy platform Bush stand on. Vulcans = elite group of handpicked Neo-cons that see themselves as Roman Gods and Godesses made of metal, like the Roman God of Industry, Vulcan.
 
Rainbow Six was (and is) better than Gay Recon. This is the first time I've seen Ghost Recon mentioned since 2003.
 
Rainbow Six was very good. I've not really liked anything he's done since the last Jack Ryan book, and I was never able to get into his op-center stuff either.

EDIT: If you like Clancy, you might give Harold Coyle a look.
 
No, google the Vulcans, it is the group around Bush that met in Birmingham, Alabama, where the tallest full metal cast statue (iron) in the entire US is located. It is the home city of Condeleezza Rice, and they named their group after that statue, due to her leading the group that crafted the policy platform Bush stand on. Vulcans = elite group of handpicked Neo-cons that see themselves as Roman Gods and Godesses made of metal, like the Roman God of Industry, Vulcan.

Wow that's awesome. How can I get in on that?
 
Just say what they want to hear long enough, and I guess they take you in.
 
I think the question needs to be flipped around the other way.

Head over to your local bookstore (preferably a big one like Borders) and browse through the fiction and sci-fi sections. Just by reading the back covers you'll find stories written about literally thousands of plots, conspiracies, hijinks, hijacks, schemes, scams, skirmishes, shootouts, wars, and here and there the odd bit about some guy boffing his secretary in the broom closet.

There are so many fiction books already in print that when a real-world crisis finally does occur, there's almost certain to be a book already out there that closely resembles it.
 
I'd see it as just pure coincidence.
 
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