Russia Professor predicts the end of the US

[malaise]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.


Igor Panarin

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.

But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.
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I told hubby this would happen shortly after the Soviet Union fell apart.
You don't facilitate the break up of other countries without instilling similar ideas in your own people.

[Idealism]

1. This is like the wizard of oz

He is supposed to tell Russia how great they're doing while highlighting US failures, all while Russia's economy is in the tubes and they're slipping just like the rest of the world is.

[ladjf]

2. Sorry Prof. You are practicing some "wishful thinking". The U.S.

,although wounded, will survive.

[shraby]

3. The difference between we'uns and Russia

in similar circumstances is that Russia was held together with force and we are held together by common purpose and a freely ratified constitution.

[Hanse]

4. What's a "moral collapse?"

Is that like Sodom and Gomorrah?

[aikoaiko]

5. He should ended his interview with " We will bury you."

;)