as if things weren't bad enough, russian professor predicts end of US

[slumber]

Apparently by 2010 the US will no longer be the US as we know it.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

The full article, found on WSJ online, can be read here.

This map may be my favorite bit:



*makes plans to move to Europe, by which I mean the Northest US* :|

Comments

[darkphoenixrisn.livejournal.com]

What a silly man.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

I know he mentions the man who, for 15 years, predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, but that comparison is a bit of a fallacy, isn't it?

[morganashkevron.livejournal.com]

I saw this earlier and lolled. I already live in the cool part of the US :) If we revert back to European control, I'll be alright.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

So, uh, before 2010 arrives, d'you think I can move in with you? :|

[ccharlotte.livejournal.com]

Well, Canada isn't the worst country to belong to. And the Russians can gladly have Sarah Palin.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

No, but if it comes to that, I'd rather be with the EU. :|

[mokusan.livejournal.com]

Californian Republic? WHY name it after CALIFORNIA? D:

Bah. I like being free of Chinese control, kthnx. (Well, so to speak; our economy kind of makes that contradictory.)

BUT STILL. wtf? xD

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Because, apparently, the biggest state gets dibs on the name. Because there are no insanely large states in the Northeast and the Midwest, they get to have generic, geography-based names. :|

[otherjoseph.livejournal.com]

but he's russian. of course he'd predict something like this!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP AT THIS HOUR OMG GO TO BED. :|

Only not really. And yes, they did point that out in the article. Multiple times. :|

[otherjoseph.livejournal.com]

i'd rather be ruled by the united states than by russia. :|

[slumber.livejournal.com]

LOL ilu.

[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

Who hoo! I get to be a Canadian!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

And to think, KS could have just as easily gone to the Texas Republic too!