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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and foreign powers will move in
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Bad idea.
Americans would fill them full of holes, I reckon.
heeding the advice of the FOUNDERS who looked to HISTORY and did not give the vote to non freeholders, women, those under 21, and simpletons.
Specifically warned against enfranchising same.
Guess who has put POTUS MUZZIE HUSSEIN and the socialists into complete control of the Government?
All of these groups have been enfranchised in the last 90 years.
Things won't be right again until a military coup stops elections and reinstates the right to vote to responsible citizens and any veteran or active duty military regardless of gender.
Until then, all bets are off and the decline will continue be steep and unyielding.
I had a nightmare of a battallion of Halfricans inexorably marching towards my city toting guns with Obama at their head
I've had recurring invasion nightmares my whole life, one every three to five years. Over that time, it's been everything from space aliens to East Germans to cartoon Nazis to the Chinese.
There was once a guest on Art Bell's program who claimed such dreams are common among people in a certain age bracket.
Well our vaunted c.i.a. failed to predict the fall of the soviet union.
Not sure they know even now.
One wonders if this could be the outcome of the United States future once the Rapture of the Church takes place. Sounds reasonable enough, with all the christians gone this country will fall apart.
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