Posted on 12/29/2008 8:14:34 PM PST by phoenix07
MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.
Igor Panarin In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."
Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.
But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.
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Sitting here shaking my head. There is NO WAY that Utah, Idaho, or eastern Washington or Oregon would align themselves with California. Ditto for large parts of Nevada.
Wyoming joining with Canada. Huh? UNBELIEVABLE!
I don’t think there will be a civil war. Unrest, riots, maybe. But not civil war.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Well if the DimocRATS have anything to do with it....
There ... fixxed it ....
It beats paying off the national debt for the next 200 years.
I had a nightmare of a battallion of Halfricans inexorably marching towards my city toting guns with Obama at their head ...The fall began years ago ...Climax approaching .
This has been a dream of the political left for a long time.
Remember that Ayers, back in his Weatherman days, stated the exact same thing in an interview. After bringing down the US, it would be broken up into several regions, which would be taken over by other countries.
Nothing new here. We are just getting closer to the possibility. It is interesting that the Russian professor mentions immigration (mostly illegal) as one of the catalysts.
Maybe in 50-100 years, but not by 2010.
The fact is that through years of government tampering, social engineering, and the degradation of discipline and education, we are in a serious hole that I can't imagine how we're going to crawl out of it. That part of his thesis doesn't require prophetic insight to see.
But if there was ever another civil war - who owns all the guns? Coastal liberals?
Sure....bring it, Professor.
Just a few posts away he is about half right.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155950/posts
(Read the Jefferson says post.) The part about a few getting tired of supporting the many. Other divisions are quite possible too. Our borders are a joke, our military is about to be halved, gas is going back to 4 bucks a gallon. At some point sane people will say enough. This guy chuckles when he talks about the violence part and what would set that off today (former KGB guy thinking about Kennedy, take your pick which one.) This guy isn’t a genius, he’s just reading the writing on the wall. What has always made America great is freedom, competition, capitalism, patriotism, natural resources, individualism, best education and our manufacturing capabilities. These things are all under direct attack (with amazing success) from within and abroad.
This is the same guy that will write Russian school history books that say the whole “CCP collapse thing” was a decoy for operation screw America.
Not to mention ingrown toenails, slugs slithering across the the patio, a flat tire on the Interstate, a burned out lightbulb, pimples, warts, a stuck drain, crabgrass, LP's that skip, bad TV reception, Stucco paint, worn Teflon cookware.
Have I left anything out?
Time to cut Igor off. He’s been hitting the vodka too hard again.
Nothing personal Phoenix, but this article has already been posted so many times that the only thing missing is a hooker with an old Soviet flag for a skirt waving at passing posters.
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