Posted on 03/04/2009 1:04:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MOSCOW -- If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels. And his predictions fit into the anti-American story line of the Kremlin leadership.
"There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010," Panarin told dozens of students, professors and diplomats Tuesday at the Diplomatic Academy - a lecture the ministry pointedly invited The Associated Press and other foreign media to attend.
The prediction from Panarin, a former spokesman for Russia's Federal Space Agency and reportedly an ex-KGB analyst, meshes with the negative view of the U.S. that has been flowing from the Kremlin in recent years, in particular from Vladimir Putin.
Putin, the former president who is now prime minister, has likened the United States to Nazi Germany's Third Reich and blames Washington for the global financial crisis that has pounded the Russian economy.
Panarin didn't give many specifics on what underlies his analysis, mostly citing newspapers, magazines and other open sources.
He also noted he had been predicting the demise of the world's wealthiest country for more than a decade now.
But he said the recent economic turmoil in the U.S. and other "social and cultural phenomena" led him to nail down a specific timeframe for "The End" - when the United States will break up into six autonomous regions and Alaska will revert to Russian control.
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besides that, we already spent the money.
What’s a rump-state?
Not to worry, Alaska and the CSA, will save the USA.
You don’t have to wait on Virginia to vote this time. (8^D)
The Dems hounded Nixon out of office, turnabout is fair play.
How about we just throw out the liberals and no-loads instead?
That's extremely optimistic.
If Obama, Nancy, and Harry stay on the track they have been following for the past six weeks, the US will collapse within two months.
Given the historical state of Sino-Soviet relations, I do not expect that to be a stable and ongoing relationship.
Maybe we'll get to sit out WWIII while the Russians and Chinese nuke each other.
They just fantasize about having Alaska back to get all that oil we just won’t drill.
The way things are going, I would’nt put anything past
the “community organizer”!
I have news for Igor. The United States has already collapsed. All that’s left is the unplugging of life support.
If we could get rid of California, New York, Massachusetts and a few other liberal hell-holes, it sounds goods to me
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Add Illinois to that list please. Michigan too
No. We have to keep Upstate NY. There’s plenty of good conservatives there. (I’d have to move my whole family to Texas)
All I can say is, hurry up y'all!
the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011,
I'm guessing 3
and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
Sure, based on tyranny, fear and oppression. Let those bastards deal with the UN.
Sarah will stand up to them. Obama won’t.
Let's see. Texas is in some of the BEST shape of all the states in the Union.
Good universities (A&M, SMU, TCU, UNT)
We have high tech
We have deep water ports.
We also have an independent electric grid
We also have nuclear weapons manufacturing and storage.
Texas would do just FINE by itself or taking a few other states with us.
“I think according to Igor, Texas reverts to Mexico...”
Texas can whip Mexico’s a$$ all by ourselves. Texas did it before, but I’ll get to help this time. We’ll take back that Alamo flag too.
Liberty, clean your weapons and make ready to lock and load.
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