Russian: US will collapse

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3521671/US-will-collapse-and-break-up-Russian-analyst-predicts.html

US will collapse and break up, Russian analyst predicts

The United States will collapse under the burden of its financial crisis and fracture into six parts, a Russian political analyst has predicted.



By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 10:58PM GMT 25 Nov 2008




Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian foreign affairs ministry, said the economic turmoil in the US had confirmed his long-held belief that the country was heading for extinction in its present form.


In an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, he outlined how the US would divide along ethnic and cultural lines.


They are: the Pacific coast with its growing Chinese population; the increasingly Hispanic South; independence-minded Texas; the Atlantic Coast; a central state with a large Native American population; and the northern states where – he maintains – Canadian influence is strong.


Alaska could be claimed by Russia, he said, claiming that the region was "only granted on lease, after all".


He said the country's break-up would be accelerated by rising unemployment and Americans losing their savings.


"The dollar isn't secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche; this is a pyramid, which has to collapse," said Prof Panarin.


Public dissatisfaction was growing and was held back only by the election and the hope that Barack Obama "can work miracles", he said. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."


Prof Panarin, who has written several books about "information warfare", also forecast that America would no longer be "the world's financial regulator", instead replaced by China and Russia.

Bloody fvcking hell you're going to take Alaska...

Public sentiment in the US is that people are fed up with big government and wasteful spending... We are still very much all citizens of the USofA...

But, if Texas were to secede from the US, it would have the 12th largest economy in the world... :rolleyes:

Welcome to the Office of the Governor - Rick Perry

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Originally Posted by Muadib

Prof Panarin, who has written several books about "information warfare", also forecast that America would no longer be "the world's financial regulator", instead replaced by China and Russia.

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Silly asshole, he just running back over what happen to USSR, nothing to do with USA.
But he is right about one thing tho, Russia will not be in on it, but the future powers that be will be China and India.
Russia will not be in such a position for at least 200 years because of Uncle Joe and the communist hordes, Which still dog the Russian people because of folks like Putin.

Someone ought to tell the Russian 'analyst' that if the US did fragment, into 6 or 50 pieces, there may be a bit of blood shed but nothing like what happened when the USSR imploded...and that once the dust settles the civilised folks won't take on their neighbours or each other like that lot did, before invading the rest of Europe.

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Originally Posted by Muadib

In an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, he outlined how the US would divide along ethnic and cultural lines.

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A little Schadenfruede from a Russian in the post-collapse of the Soviet Union.

Perhaps he projecting the USSR's situation with the USA's culturally and ethnically.

This is his mistake.

Collapse of US economically? Possible?

Politically? High unlikely, for several reasons.

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They are: the Pacific coast with its growing Chinese population; the increasingly Hispanic South; independence-minded Texas; the Atlantic Coast; a central state with a large Native American population; and the northern states where – he maintains – Canadian influence is strong.

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He's over-generalizing and over-simplifying.

This "analyst" is a troll for the journalists of the world.

^ MM, I am interested in BO's focus on the economy while national security is being treated rather lightly. What's your view?

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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ MM, I am interested in BO's focus on the economy while national security is being treated rather lightly. What's your view?

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1. Do you mean national security as in the Military?

2. Or, national security in preventing another US domestic terrorist attack?


#2, already has the agencies and intelligence in place. It's already set up and there is a Dept. of Homeland Security.

If there is an attack, then it may be thwarted, or maybe it won't be. It's a part of life.

As for the military operations: not important, IMO.

US security is now primarily based on intelligence, coordination with foreign countries, and certain agencies, and some Special-Op military forces.

Russia is shafted too. Oil and gas price levels right now are killing them.

Expect to see a sharp fall in the number of Russian tourists in Pattaya soon.

^ So Spin, you are saying that some good will come of this fiasco after all??

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Originally Posted by Muadib

The United States will collapse under the burden of its financial crisis and fracture into six parts, a Russian political analyst has predicted.

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As long as my part doesn't get the $10 trillion debt or Christian fundamentalists.

I do not understand why the russians would say a thing like that.
Surely the USA is not selling oil for less than $ 50.00 a Bbl. nor CNG at a bargain price, but is instead making money on every drop oil they buy.:rofl: