Russian Professor Predicts Fall of U.S.

Wall St. Journal ^ | Dec. 29,2008 | Andrew Osborn

[phoenix07]

I somehow think the state of Arizona would NOT go into any kind of deal with California - or for that matter, agree to become part of Mexico. This guy is full of prunes.

[Squantos]

More responses to same story here......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155548/posts

[wintertime]

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!

[Tanniker Smith]

I don’t think there will be a civil war. Unrest, riots, maybe. But not civil war.

[goldstategop]

I think this guy is a crackpot. On the hand, Obama may mess things up so much America simply will not survive in its current form.

"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

[TribalPrincess2U]

Well if the DimocRATS have anything to do with it....

[Mr_Moonlight]

Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media US MSM and Democrat Party.

There ... fixxed it ....

[RC one]

It beats paying off the national debt for the next 200 years.

[sushiman]

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 .

[ChicagahAl]

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.

[OCC]

When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

Maybe in 50-100 years, but not by 2010.

[uncommonsense]

I'd say he's full of fermented potatoes. Texas owned by Mexico? HA!

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?

[Victor]

Sure....bring it, Professor.

[OCC]

United States of North America is a more likely outcome.

[OCC]

United States of North America is a more likely outcome.

[enduserindy]

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.

[Mr_Moonlight]

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.

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?

[Mogwai]

Understandable that the prof would invent such tripe; it's a good moneymaker given the madness and nationalism, and mad nationalism, of Russian media. But it would be really pitiful if he actually believed it. The bit about Alaska returning to Russia is extra rich. Years ago there was a Russian pop song, Ne valiai duraka, Amerika ("Don't Play the Fool, America") that went on about how the US ought to give Alaska back. At the time everyone saw it for what it was, crazy fun stuff. Now this sort of thing is taken seriously by many.

[advance_copy]

Time to cut Igor off. He’s been hitting the vodka too hard again.

[mkjessup]

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.