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." Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic
Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored
several books on information warfare.
We could take Canada
Everyone's making hay of this "Russian" "analyst" and the prediction that the United States will break up into pieces within a decade.