Russian Professor Predicts Fall of U.S. in 2010

[Amby 490]

MOSCOW — For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media, who are interviewing him twice a day.

A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Professor Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.

"There's a 55-45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur," says Panarin. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario — for Russia."

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.

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473529,00.html

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

I pronounce him,

Nostradamus part deux

[DeadPoolX 9]

So... people are happy about this for what reason? Maybe the U.S. isn't the most considerate, but I'd hate to see what China or Russia does if one or the other become the next "superpower."

[mawilson 2,133]

The prof should lay off the vodka. His drunken delusions are entertaining to be sure, but we've heard it all before.

[Jasman0717 9]

Isn't the world supposed to come to an end in 2012

[bhajishah 4]

Russians and now other countries have been saying and wishing this for years. remember cold war. yeah. Noone listens to them have some brain freeze going on.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The US ain't the Soviet Union. The good professor ought to take note of that.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

The prof should lay off the vodka. His drunken delusions are entertaining to be sure, but we've heard it all before.

why do you hate drunks????

[Amby 490]

The prof should lay off the vodka. His drunken delusions are entertaining to be sure, but we've heard it all before.

why do you hate drunks????

[mawilson 2,133]

The prof should lay off the vodka. His drunken delusions are entertaining to be sure, but we've heard it all before.

why do you hate drunks????

I don't. I only hate Russian drunks who make delusional predictions.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

The prof should lay off the vodka. His drunken delusions are entertaining to be sure, but we've heard it all before.

why do you hate drunks????

I don't. I only hate Russian drunks who make delusional predictions.

oh, cool then

otherwise Shpat would have been brokenhearted.

[bhajishah 4]

shpat dont do world predictions while drunkdoes he?? he is only 19 yold

[Amby 490]

shpat dont do world predictions while drunkdoes he?? he is only 19 yold

shpat is 22 methinks

[spookyturtle 9,466]

We've still got one year left.

[DeadPoolX 9]

Isn't the world supposed to come to an end in 2012

According to the Mayans, yeah.

I was disappointed on August 29, 1997. The world was supposed to end due to SkyNet becoming aware and nuking us to hell.