Posted on 11/30/2008 7:24:39 AM PST by Srirangan
MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti) - 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."
When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: "Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia."
Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
He also cited the "vulnerable political setup", "lack of unified national laws", and "divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions."
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."
On the fate of the U.S. dollar, he said: "In 2006 a secret agreement was reached between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. on a common Amero currency as a new monetary unit. This could signal preparations to replace the dollar. The one-hundred dollar bills that have flooded the world could be simply frozen. Under the pretext, let's say, that terrorists are forging them and they need to be checked."
When asked how Russia should react to his vision of the future, Panarin said: "Develop the ruble as a regional currency. Create a fully functioning oil exchange, trading in rubles... We must break the strings tying us to the financial Titanic, which in my view will soon sink."
Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.
Those separate parts are called ‘states’. If we return to greater independence of states and less top-down federal control, so much the better.
Isn’t it interesting that “Hispanics” (whatever that is) take the south but not Texas, which is full of “hispanics.” It appears that the good Professor Panarin actually has a grasp of the power of fully armed rednecks.
I bet these guys did not loose so much as a single tricycle.
I suppose they could not spell "arrested…"
V Pravde ne Isvetiya, e v Isveste, ne Pravdi.
Kind of what I thought when I saw this. It would be good to see the states have more power and the feds a lot less.
Demographers estimate that Russia could lose 40 million people - almost a third of its current population - by the middle of the century.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6990802.stm
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Probably just lost interest, lol.
So the fight is on...where will the capital of the Republic of the South be located? Dallas? Atlanta? Nashville? Orlando? Charleston?
I’d like to suggest a smaller town which fit better....Lexington, Kentucky. Its a neutral fit, and easy distance of the other states.
That was 5 days ago! Did you ever think that, maybe, a bunch of people didn't see it then? Not everyone here sits around their computer 24/7.
Careful, Igor. Igor bad ghoul. Igor lose paw.
That's Sarah Palin's state you're talking about. You want to get stuffed and mounted?
I agree but I think the Russian analyst was thinking more along the lines of regions perhaps akin to North East / Dixie / mid West / Cascadia - West.
I’m afraid this person is correct.
With the hoard of incoming communists, marxists, socialists etc. Our great country is near collapse.
Once they take us to collapse they will take even more of our freedoms.
They have assisted China the last 20 years in growth while limiting our own.
We deserve the government we get. It’s our own faults.
They will drive us in to a deep depression.
All that stands between freedom and slavery is the 2nd admendment.
This Rooskie isn’t saying anything I haven’t said in the last few years.
America is toast. Maybe our next (regional) attempts will be more successful.
The United States of Texas.
The several hundred return posts on all of them would indicate otherwise.
I’m afraid this person is correct.
With the hoard of incoming communists, marxists, socialists etc. Our great country is near collapse.
Once they take us to collapse they will take even more of our freedoms.
They have assisted China the last 20 years in growth while limiting our own.
We deserve the government we get. It’s our own faults.
They will drive us in to a deep depression.
All that stands between freedom and slavery is the 2nd admendment.
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