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!
Just let me get my shoes off and I will try to cypher an answer to that.
Tell me this is a joke. SC, NC, Tenn, KY, and W.Va joining New England. Yeah.
Obumwad couldn’t f things up in two years. Or could he? He’s already doing a swell job of it and he hasn’t even spread his prayer rug in the Oval Office.
If you need to drop yer zipper to count to ‘leven...
Hey, I usta live tween Possum Trott and Monkey’s Eyebrow.
Really.
I can see Civil War if Obama tries to turn the US into a socialist state. Mexico has more to fear from us that we from them. Wishful thinking only. Alaska will never be part of Russia but I can see the Kingdom of Hawaii going to Japan or China. The Old Confederacy will never become part of another union—they would go into rebellion almost at once. America will wake up when threatened. At least that what I would like to think.
That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? Bench warmers? In what, the NBA? I thought Kentucky had a lock on that market.
Now that is really Kentucky, we just posture and preen and pretend up here.
Obama is going to lead to the disintegration of something. I don’t know how it’s going to pan out, but it’s bound to happen. If my country must be balkanized, please don’t lump Missouri in with California. That’s all I ask.
The NBA is to basketball as McDonalds is to dining.
I agree.
the War of Northern Aggression was fought over states rights...you know, something a little like small federal government
Right. So don’t give me this bullcrap (not you giving it, specifically), that the Yankees (free-traders) fought to save slavery.
Take a drive through Camden, NJ and you'll see why I left NY out.
I guess Detroit is your poison pill.
can’t see Texas giving it up to Mexico! But I like Louisiana in tExas,,works for me.
My suggestion is why wait for it to happen? Let’s join Alaska and Texas together with all the “conservative” states in between (Idaho, Wyoming, etc..) Kick out the Feds, kick out the libs (same difference) use the Gulf’s of Mexico and Alaska for trade commerce.
Start over and see if we could make it a couple more hundred years before political correctness ruined a good nation.
Gun ownership mandatory, abortion illegal, people more important than spotted owls or tree frogs, you get my drift...
This sounds just like what Bill Ayers was hoping for.
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