Posted on 12/30/2008 4:52:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In 1990, few were predicting the breakup of the Soviet Union.
But it came – only a year later.
With 2009 set to begin in a few days, there is someone predicting the breakup of the United States – a year from now.
His name is Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst and dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's school for foreign diplomats – in other words, a serious fellow.
For him, it's nothing new. He's been making the same prediction for last 10 years. But, until recently, no one took him seriously. And then came the economic calamity that has rocked Americans and the rest of the world, too. Now, Panarin's predictions of an end of the United States, due to economic and moral collapse, is being taken seriously by many.
Panarin blames out-of-control mass immigration, economic decline and moral degradation for what he believes could be a civil war as early as next fall and a total collapse of the dollar. By June or July of 2010, he sees the U.S. breaking into six pieces.
Now, I'm not buying into Panarin's entire prediction. But I do think there's something to it.
I've been talking about this possibility more and more in recent years. I don't see how this house of cards we're building can possibly withstand the next significant windstorm. The political ties no longer bind. Only inertia and the threat of force hold us together.
The economic crisis is clearly visible to all – but all the wrong buttons are being pushed. In fact, the same people who got us into this mess are digging a deeper hole for all of us to climb out of.
The other two crises he points to have scarcely even been recognized by many people – out-of-control immigration and moral rot.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
The the problem isn’t with the nation. The problem is with government and the cities. It would be foolish to destroy the greatest nation on the face of the planet because of a couple of problem areas.
The only realistic potential for this to happen would be a series of catastrophes. Two very potent ones on the horizon are a major economic collapse followed by the Avian flu, not just killing millions of Americans, but wiping out vast numbers of our domestic animals.
Another possibility is of a major civil war in Mexico, with millions of refugees heading north to escape the violence, and maybe bringing some of the violence with them.
Then there are natural disasters as well, such as major earthquakes in California or along the New Madrid fault, a super tidal wave wiping out much of the East or West coasts, a major US volcanic eruption, or things like that.
Russians tend to have a very distorted view of America, however, with many thinking we are evenly divided between Al Capone style gangsters and cowboys and Indians. American blacks are imagined to mostly be living in Haitian style poverty in the South.
I have no idea how he imagines the US will break up.
What has WND ever been wrong about?
You’re just trashing conservatives on a conservative site. What’s the point of that?
FR even has a link to WND here: http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm.
Do you think FR is bad, too?
I wonder if that is still going to be true after all the trillions in bailouts are handed out to the NYS and Cali financials.
No, the money going to the Fed through the IRS will dry up. The contributions will drop to something approaching parity — a dollar in for a dollar out. This will be hugely destructive to the dependent states unless something is done.
All kinds of weird stuff. The whole Houston area looked like a war zone for a few days after the hurricane.
Total darkness, long long lines at gas stations and super markets.
The only big difference between New Orleans and Houston, if your caught lootin, you probably wouldn't survive.
Really? You post on all the Obammy, Hillary, Clinton,Pelosi, Blago threads about what good Americans they are? They belong to the same American ideals that you and I belong to. Not here. You might be a whole lot more accepting of the left than I am, and want to assimilate just to keep the union together but I won't go that route. These people don't belong to my country. They want another country which isn't what we know as our country.
Really? You post on all the Obammy, Hillary, Clinton,Pelosi, Blago threads about what good Americans they are? They belong to the same American ideals that you and I belong to. Not here. You might be a whole lot more accepting of the left than I am, and want to assimilate just to keep the union together but I won't go that route. These people don't belong to my country. They want another country which isn't what we know as our country.
Look, we just lost an election. Unfortunately this means the winners get their way for a time. The GOP can stand for their beliefs-so called loyal opposition. However, our time will come again. All this talk about secession is just nuts-it won’t happen and should not happen.
In my opinion we lost because we were voting for nonsense and name recognition over substance just like the democrats. We had a 50/50 chance of winning and lost.
Yeah, much better to let a socialist coup bleed the resources of you and your neighbors to keep other states enslaved. /sarc
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
The causes: Unconstitutional usurpation of office, authority, property, and morality.
The Republicans will fix things when they get control again? oh please!
I have never posted any such thing. I am a Republican and voted for and worked for McCain. What I have said is that we should set our sights on winning hearts and minds of voters in order to win future elections.
You may not consider Democrats Americans, but they are...wish there were a few more Republicans. We might have Pres. John McCain. However, what you are talking about is treason. You will get locked up so fast your head will spin. Our country is bigger than Reid, Obama and Pelosi. We will survive the next four (hopefully not eight years) and come back strong.
A huge amount of taxes for who? This benefits me here in SC how? I'd like to see the charts and data that make my "statement ridiculous", in your words. I'm sure you researched this in depth before posting and have links to the data that support your claim so that the rest of us can believe too.
Well you have the right to vote third party. I have considered this myself. Succession is still not an option. I mean no disrespect, but only seriously delusional people would consider such a thing.
Federal taxes and yes it benefits you. SC is one of those states that gets more back then it pays in taxes.
Oh put on your big boy panties and vote conservative and stop your little fantasy tantrums about destroying the nation because you didn’t get your way.
You don’t think Pres. McCain would be better than Pres. Obama?
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