Posted on 12/29/2008 4:48:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
MOSCOW — For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media, who are interviewing him twice a day.
A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Professor Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.
"There's a 55-45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur," says Panarin. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario — for Russia."
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.
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.
For many years I have heard the rumors of the demise of this United States of America. For many years I wrote those rumors off as nothing more than wishful thinking by our enemies. Wishful thinking and hopes that our way of life would be destroyed.
The timeline stated in this story may be close to correct. The United States of America is on life support as you read this. Our nation is very close to death right now. Our finances are a wreck. Our politics are even worse, graft and corruption are the order of the day.
One upon a time, I would have fought ANY that said the American people and this nation were on the verge of falling. I no longer feel that way. I KNOW we are in a seriously dangerous position. I KNOW that we really are on the verge of collapse. The last 4 or 5 years under George W. Bush and his administrations rape of this nation have made that fact glaringly apparent.
And to ANY that think Obama is going to be, or DO anything better than Bush, think again. Bush has built the coffin this nation will be laid to rest in. Obama will dig the hole, hammer the nails in place, drop the casket in and cover it up!
I would not be at all surprised to see a *civil war* in this nation. I would also not be at all surprised to see America splinter into several smaller nations. The far west would likely be Aztlan, the Mexicans would try to take Texas back but that would be their Waterloo, Texas will emerge as a nation unto itself, a relatively self sufficient REPUBLIC that has the rest of this Balkanized nation wanting all that we produce and control!
Those predictions by the Russian Professor are not at all out of realm of possibilities. The *dire straights* that he refers to are here now, just not quite dire enough to bring us to our knees. Yet.
I truly pity many parts of this nation as well. Can you imagine Detroit or Chicago trying to be self sufficient? Can you imagine the *Chocolate City* being self sufficient even in thriving times? Those cities can't maintain their citizens NOW. God help us all if this nation falls into total anarchy in the coming months!
I have never been on that area. Thanks for the warning.
Best regards,
de Texas Fossil
I suspect the Lithuanians would knock you down and take your lunch money.
Go ahead, laugh all you want, I’m moving to Alaska while you can go there without a visa - Russian chicks are hot, dude!
Frankly, I think that a union of the Southern and Western states would be more likely in the event of such a collapse. I could see Oregon, Washington, and California aligning with the northeast.
Did a journalist ask him how long it will take to wipe Russia off the face of the earth when one of our capitalist criminals gets control of the US missle defense system?
That would be "dire straits," unless you're talking about a poker game.
That's just what my Lithuanian grandfather did to my grandmother, and why I never got to meet him.
Just how many NCAA Championships does Lithuania have again?
But if they are as good as you think maybe we should sent the UK cheerleaders over there.
The economic war on Americans today is over tariffs and doing business with slave labor countries. Waged by the “free traders”, current events demonstrate that America has clearly lost the war.
Michigan and New Jersey are the poison pills in this takeover deal.
The females would return with engagement rings, and the females in Kentucky would be left with male cheerleaders.
So the US will disintegrate before I get my credit cards and cars paid off?
Hmmmmmmmmmm....................................
The guys a freaking moron.
He comes from a country that has been around a long time but hasn’t really ever had its crap together. It’s people have no morality, only an “I will do anything to take advantage of you” attitude. His country is run by the Mafia and has no democratic tradition where the people elect their representatives on the local and national level. I can’t see governors being appointed in the United States.
The United States has had elections every two years, nationally and locally (which is more important)since the late 1700’s. Show me any other country that has had that kind of time span for uninterrupted elections?
The west coast under Chinese dominion, Texas (yeah right) being run by Mexico, and the heartland of America letting Canadians tell them what to do. How ludicrous is that? There are a lot of weapons in this country and their are a lot of former members of our military who will step up to the plate one more time to keep the country together.
All this from a Russian that has been kissing his government’s butt since he was a kid. Americans are independent and can think for themselves and don’t need the politburo or a political beaurocrat telling us what to do. We can think for ourselves unlike most Russians. I’ve met a few Russians that get it but most don’t. They just wait until they are told what to do.
What a moron.
Kentucky is famous for beautiful horses and fast women.
They might come home with a bunch of Lithuanian bench warmers with engagement rings in their noses.
I think Dick Butkus’ ma was Lithuanian.
Texas controlled by Mexico? What a joke!
For an average IQ of at least 10, right?
And fully half of those are above average!
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