Posted on 12/28/2008 11:19:03 PM PST by AZLiberty
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.
"There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.
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Make that the Chinese and the Arabs.
And also don't forget ....who will be ""leading"" America into this downfall. The anti-nukes closet-Muslim himself. When "the One" implements his anti-American agenda, Alaska might not have any defense systems by the year 2010.
(And sense we're talking hypothetical scenarios....) Not to mention the fact that Iran will need to thank and repay Russia for all the goodies Russia has provided them. Ahmanutjob will no doubt ask his good buddy, "the One", to handle that repayment for him. Gifting Alaska would be a nice gesture, dontcha know.
Haven’t they had to devalue their currency 5 times in the last 6 months or so? Besides it was us who let the Bolsheviks survive.
(more hypothetical far-out scenarios...) Not the entire South. Just Texas. “The One” is going to need help disarming all of us Texas patriots....and Mexico would be useful to “the One” in that respect. Mexico moves in and takes over Texas and the disarming problem is supposedly solved. Only problem is, I don’t think Mexico is up to the job. We’d kick their ass....again.
ABSOLUTELY!
I think this guy is right on target!
Sorry guys! It has been nice FReeping with you!
I truthfully think this guy’s thinking is not so far from the truth.
Not that I am sad or anything. With mas immigration , moral decline and economic collaspe looming, it does not look good. BUT hey, I know where I am going!
Maranatha!!
In predicting the end of the U.S. the Russian academic has done nothing more than validate the admonition of a number of our founders who all warned that a republican system of government would fail without a robust sense of public morality and virtue.
Thats correct! There is no sense in fear, it is time for the American Spirit to rise again. Something has to die in order for something else to be born.
My hope is for Revival!
Whoa! Don't you go anywhere, dang it.
When the Civil War does come we'll need you. Heck we need you now. So you ain't going nowhere ;)
(Volunteering for Maranatha is Noble .. BUT - that won't help save the USA)
There’s Seven Million alcoholics is Russia. Igor Panarin is one of them.
I really hate to pop Mr. Panarin’s bubble, but there’s no way in Hell that South Carolina is gonna let itself get lumped into a bunch of way-left wacko states like NY, MA, etc. Ther’s also no way in Hell we’d get involved with the European Doomunion, either.
If we’re gonna split, I can see SC, GA, AL, MS and FL hanging together. The Southeast United States.
Russia better worry about its own business. It faces a demographic nightmare. It is simply not producing enough Russkies to replace the ones currently dying. In fifty years time, there might be more non-Russians than Russians living inside its borders.
It just goes to show that the professor knows very little about the United States and the people who live here.
Moscow will be very, very, VERY warm if the Russkies try to get their mitts on Alaska.
Damn straight! Sarah'd kill that paper hanging KGB son of a bitch Putin and have his head stuffed and mounted in her living room if Russia tried to take Alaska.
With the levels of alcoholism, smoking, HIV rates, I would say Russia is already in the midst of a decline of its own.
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