This came from the Drudge Report (so consider it accordingly):
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."
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.
The Russian apparently didn't predict exactly when the U.S. would break into pieces. But Drudge notes the story is "developing", so maybe this afternoon or tomorrow we should know our fate.
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