Posted on 11/25/2008 1:22:03 PM PST by prismsinc
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: "The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse."
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
They came as immigrants, not invaders, and if they did it as legally immigrants, welcome and dosvidonya to the land of the hamburger! We want all the immigrants we can get, as long as they can support themselves!
Remember the book The Nine Nations of North America??
I think it’s just sour grapes considering what happened to the old USSR in the 90s.
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona will secede and form the new nation of Texicozonarado. California and Nevada will leave and form Nevifornia.
The article says (about the author) — “He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all.” Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.”
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Hmmmm..., what’s that about Alaska?
Taking a quick look at Wikipedia, we see this...
The Alaska Purchase (otherwise known as Seward’s Folly or Seward’s Icebox) by the United States from the Russian Empire occurred in 1867 at the behest of Secretary of State William Seward. The territory purchased was 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km²) of the modern state of Alaska. The transfer of the Territory of Alaska in 1867 to the United States of America by Tsarist Russia, a transaction historically purported as an intrinsically legal sale, was claimed to be only a lease by Professor Igor Panarin, a leading Russian political analyst, in an interview with Izvestia published on Monday, November 24, 2008. The issue, however, is subsumed by the Doctrine of Laches: “Vigilantibus non dormientibus æquitas subvenit,” wherein Western courts of law going back to the Romans have consistently held that “equity aids the vigilant, not the negligent.” Russia might wish to unravel the Alaska sale, but the passing of 140 years before filing a valid claim in any legally recognized court is insufficient to avail itself in any court of law except a Muslim Sharia court under Koranic law. Until Russia adopts Sharia law under the Koran, it is doubtful that Professor Igor Panarin’s claim would be sustained by court in the West. Additionally, there is no mention of a time period nor a lease in the original treaty document in which Russia ceded the territory to the United States.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_purchase ]
It would seem that anyone stating the claim that Russia has only been leasing Alaska to the U.S. is “off his rocker”... And that definitely puts a large dent in his credibility regarding the rest of his statements about the U.S. (not that it was believable in the first place...).
Seems that he’s really engaged in “disinformation warfare” ... LOL...
The “theories” as such are staple of Russian nationalist agitprop; particularly they are produced en masse when Russia gets in bad shape, which is to say during 90 of each hundred years.
When Mexico takes us over, here in Reconquista, where will all the illegals then go? Will they head over to Indian Country or maybe trek all the way to Liberal Land, where the handouts are better? Just wondering.
No debt...to speak of. In comparison to what we have now...
When reading the details, I thought this guy was back in the 19th century. The regions of our great Republic are not nearly as homogeneous as this Russian assumes them to be.
To be honest with you, what really stood out was the claim on Russia - this could be made without the collapse of the lower 48. It would only require a ridiculously weak and limp wristed US government more concerned with social engineering and advancing a Socialist agenda and retaining power for the ruling party than national security combined with an increasingly aggressive Russia... Wait a minute, isn’t that the road we are on right now?
guy’s theory of what these six parts will look
He’s RIGHT ON about TEXAS!! No brag, just fact.
The new Republic from Florida to Alaska could be a great country using our same Constitution. Let the other country with New York and California make up a new one, since they don't want the one we have. Cali has enough arable land to feed everyone. Beef is bad for the environment so they don't really need any of that. They could have all the wind farms they wanted, even though the Midwest is the best place for that. And we could have our Nuclear plants.
Then we could SELL our resources and be paid for our hard work to the other country who is full of uneducated inept people. Now thats Utopia!
Russia wanted to sell Alaska, the question being which power would buy it. They had a choice of England, Spain, and USA and chose to sell to USA as the up and coming power in the northwest. There is still a lot of Russia in Alaska so if it were sold back it wouldn’t be a big change except the resources would be developed. Sdrasvuiche tovarisch.
Not hardly! We may take em over, but it’ll still be TEXAS.
Where did you find this?
"Texans have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.” Texas Constitution - Article 1- Section 2
"Whenever any form of government is destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.” Declaration of Independence, 1776
Putin has said we are going down as well. I wonder why leaders in hostile countries all over the world think the USA is going down? What I see is a trillion dollars in foreign investment being sucked out of third world countries including Russia, and being put into the safety of US bonds. What I see is the IMF claiming they have loaned 50 Billion dollars of their 250 Billon dollar reserve in the last 2 weeks, to help third world central banks deal with the out flow of money from their economies. What I see is a Russian stock market that has been falling so fast that over the last 2 months it has spent more time closed than open.
Finally, what I see is an attempt to increase the perceived risk of US failure, to stop or at least slow the disinvestment in Russia and other third world economies.
The GOP leaning states could just secede from the union. Maybe we could let western Canada join us since they are more conservative. Then we could let the leftist states in the northeast grow their own food, build their own cars, drill their own oil, mine their own coal, etc., plus they could have unlimited legal and illegal immigration and socialized everything.
The only problem is, we would probably have to declare war on California and conquer it so we could have good seaports...other than that there should be no real problems.
America is going down, mark my words. Nothing to see here.
I’m with you on that. It’s been a tough road for right this go ‘round.....
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