Thread: 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...

Welcome to the Office of the Governor - Rick Perry

Originally Posted by Muadib

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

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.

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.

He's over-generalizing and over-simplifying.

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