MOSCOW -- If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order. Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels. And his predictions fit into the anti-American story line of the Kremlin leadership. "There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010," Panarin told dozens of students, professors and diplomats Tuesday at the Diplomatic Academy _ a lecture the ministry pointedly invited The Associated Press and other foreign media to attend.
MOSCOW -- If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels. And his predictions fit into the anti-American story line of the Kremlin leadership.
"There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010," Panarin told dozens of students, professors and diplomats Tuesday at the Diplomatic Academy _ a lecture the ministry pointedly invited The Associated Press and other foreign media to attend.
His theory of martial law works well within the Bush administration mindset, but I do not see it with the Obama administration mindset. I think the Panarins of this world would like to see another U.S. civil war. I think we Americans will disappoint him.
His triggers for a U.S. civil war were economic decline, which is happening, mass immigration, which isn't happening because of the economic decline, and moral degradation. Now I don't know specifically what he thinks moral decline is, but I'm guessing it is gays and god related and not state-sanctioned torture and the fraud economy.
All in all, the U.S. is more likely to start another foreign war than a domestic one. The danger for U.S. collapse comes more from the drug war in Mexico spilling over the border than from the economic meltdown.
I think he's a fruitcake.
If the US was going to fall apart, the best opportunity would have been for Bush/Cheney/Rummy to let YET ANOTHER terrorist strike hit America LIKE THEY DID KNOWINGLY ON 9-11 (I say again!) and then try to completely shut down all US freedoms. That would have done it. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Also Panarin thinks in a post-collapse U.S., Alaska will revert to Russia.
There are rumours - there are always rumours - that he's Putin's pet propaganda creature. So this would be more wishful thinking and suggestion than reality-based reporting.
How will the country be divided? Mexico is obviously in the south. What else? A: There are six parts altogether. The first one is the Pacific Ocean coast of the USA. I can give you an example: 53% of San Francisco's population is Chinese. The Governor of Washington state was an ethnic Chinese; its capital, Seattle, is called the gate of the Chinese emigration to the USA. It is obvious that the Pacific Ocean coast has been gradually influenced by China. The second part in the south is definitely the Mexicans. In some areas, Spanish has become the official language already. Then comes Texas which has been openly fighting for independence.
A: There are six parts altogether. The first one is the Pacific Ocean coast of the USA. I can give you an example: 53% of San Francisco's population is Chinese. The Governor of Washington state was an ethnic Chinese; its capital, Seattle, is called the gate of the Chinese emigration to the USA. It is obvious that the Pacific Ocean coast has been gradually influenced by China. The second part in the south is definitely the Mexicans. In some areas, Spanish has become the official language already. Then comes Texas which has been openly fighting for independence.
Damn. This guy is a loony tunes freeper. And he's in charge of diplomat training for Russia. All you folks talking about how responsible and sane Russia is compared to the US, and the need to break with Atlanticism in favor of a closer relationship with Russia, ummh, you sure about that?
Okay, Igor, listen up:
(1) About a fifth -- that's about 20% (1/5) -- of San Francisco's population is Chinese. Not 53%. Asians, broadly, aren't even 53% of the city. They're 33%.
(2) Seattle is 17% Asian. And the former governor of Washington is named Gary Locke. (I know, the name alone screams, "CPC Spy.") I'm not sure what Locke's ethnic roots have to do with it, since, as Ambassador ShitforBrains has presumably seen, we do elect people from ethnic groups -- you know, like the current President -- which are not dominant in the electorate.
And for Seattle being the "Gateway to Chinese emigration" -- yeah, I guess that would be true if we were still living in 1800s.
The second part in the south is definitely the Mexicans. In some areas, Spanish has become the official language already. Then comes Texas which has been openly fighting for independence.
(3) Yes, Igor, Spanish is the official language in some places in Mexico. In fact, I'm pretty sure you'll find it's the official language in all of Mexico. (Note he says "Then Texas" after mentioning all that.)
The only evidence -- and, granted, it was just a quick Google -- I can find of Spanish being an official language anywhere in the US is in a small border town in Texas called El Cenizo.
Have a few more glasses of vodka and get back to us, Igor. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
