Updated: Jan 1, 2009 Added map and link to another story and another video report
Updated: Nov 27, 2008 added video
MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
19:31 | 24/11/2008
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.”
The paper said Panarin’s dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year’s events.
When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: “It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world’s financial regulator.”
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He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts – the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska – it was only granted on lease, after all.”
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via RIA Novosti – World – Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.
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Update
“There will be civil war in US in 2009”
The break-up of America into six pieces? Alaska joining the Russian Federation? Will Russia survive the crisis? Igor Panarin, a Russian professor of economics, discusses these questions when he dropped by the RT studio on Thursday.
`There will be civil war in US in 2009`
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BULL!!!!
Just because the USSR failed. This man thinks US will fail…. well not in this life time Moscow.
We have always stayed strong…..yeh maybe we would not be a super power, but we will still control the next super power (THE UN)
I realize I’m only a college student and have no specialties in the study of Alaskan history, but I have done extensive research on Alaska after reading this article, including reading the actual treaty between His Majesty Emperor of All Russians and the United States of America. I wanted to point out that the purchase of Russia was a PURCHASE not a LEASE, and furthermore if it was a lease Russia would have no claim on Alaska when the lease ended. The treaty was between the United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of All Russians, not Russia itself. Since the treaty was written, signed, and ratified by both parties in two languages, Russia has changed governments completey TWICE. Russia is no longer an Empire, and has a President and Prime Minister as heads of state instead of an Emperor. No person holds the title, “His Majesty Emperor of All Russians,” and no one has since the fall of the Tsarist autocracy in 1917 and the installment of communism in Russian government.
Thanks for the additional info, Steven. Enjoy college!
Don’t worry about the spelling errors, I’ve corrected them in your comment.
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Why do we get South Carolina? Wasn’t Deliverance in South Carolina?
You’d have to partition off Boca and give that to NewYorEurope.
Texas get’s its own friggin’ country? I say give the whole thing back to Mexico.
Eliminate warmongering Wyoming altogether and march Dick Chainey off on his own trail of tears to the penitentiary.
Give back the Dakotas to the Lakota and the Hudson Valley to the Mahicans…
We should divide the country strictly on red-state/blue-state lines: The coasts get to join the land of the living, and the heartland can sit and swelter in ignorant mega-churches and pray for salvation while the Oglala aquifer dries up.
But really, this gun-crazy country fought the absurd civil war to keep its ill-gotten union together; just because the ill-gotten Soviets lost their empire doesn’t mean the USA is getting balkanized. Who would get all tha nukes?
Haha, Natureboy. I thought you’d like this one. I have no problem joining with Canada. Not everyone in the South or the Midwest is a Fundamentalist Christian, hardly.
Hopefully all the nukes would be dismantled permanently.
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We want California.
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