Russian analyst: U.S. will collapse next year

[Liberal_in_LA]

Russian analyst: U.S. will collapse next year
Kremlin-linked scholar cites economic woes, 'social and cultural phenomena'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29504880/

updated 4:58 a.m. PT, Wed., March. 4, 2009

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 United States 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.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. lol, too much vodka.

[DJ13]

2. As wrong as Russian predictions have been over the decades

I would be more worried if they predicted our country will be better off in the next two years.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Well, if the US does break into 6 states, I'm lucky I live in one with good weather.

[DJ13]

4. If I remember his "map" from last year I had better learn Chinese!

[tblue]

5. "Obama will order martial law this year." LOL!

[Lex]

6. Reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated

or at least that's what I think.

[camera obscura]

7. People have been predicting America's demise since its inception.

I guess one of these centuries they'll be right, but come on.

[kwenu]

8. I'm still finding it easy to ignore him.

[discopants]

9. Sounds like FoxNews should be offering him a show

it would fit nicely between Beck and Hannity,

[enuegii]

10. How many predicted that USSR would collapse...

in, say, 1989 or 1990?
I mean, I hope not, but... just sayin'.
The US, I mean.

[Confusious]

11. This guy has predicted this before

He's wrong so much, he should be a pundit on U.S. TV

[quakerboy]

12. Look up the map

If you live in(or have visited or met a person from) Texas, Utah, Kentucky, Washington or Alaska, that map tells you everything you need to know about his predictions.