Top Russian Scholar: US will collapse next year, partly due to gays

[ccharles000]

(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 U.S. 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.

The prediction from Panarin, a former spokesman for Russia’s Federal Space Agency and reportedly an ex-KGB analyst, meshes with the negative view of the U.S. that has been flowing from the Kremlin in recent years, in particular from Vladimir Putin.

Putin, the former president who is now prime minister, has likened the United States to Nazi Germany’s Third Reich and blames Washington for the global financial crisis that has pounded the Russian economy.

Panarin didn’t give many specifics on what underlies his analysis, mostly citing newspapers, magazines and other open sources.

He also noted he had been predicting the demise of the world’s wealthiest country for more than a decade now.

But he said the recent economic turmoil in the U.S. and other “social and cultural phenomena” led him to nail down a specific timeframe for “The End” - when the United States will break up into six autonomous regions and Alaska will revert to Russian control.

Panarin argued that Americans are in moral decline, saying their great psychological stress is evident from school shootings, the size of the prison population and the number of gay men.

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[YOY]

1. I've heard this assclown.

He knows nothing of our culture and as far as I am concerned got his degree from a crackerjack box.

[AyanEva]

2. .

Is the this the same guy who thinks we're going to split up along boundaries that make absolutely no sense?

[Z_I_Peevey]

4. One and the same.

[TK421]

5. Hmmmmm.....I guess I should brush up on my German then

:eyes: what a fuckstick

[AnnieBW]

13. South Carolina goes with the Northeast?

This just proves that this guy is clueless. Everybody KNOWS that South Carolina would go with the "Texas Republic" and the rest of the Southern crazies.

[YOY]

28. He has the wierd Russian preoccupation with Alaska I have seen so often.

There are some dopes there who think we would give it back...

And the west coast goes to CHINA? Texas to Mexico? The man has no idea in the least of American history or culture high or low.

[Froward69]

32. second!!!

Colo going north??? hardly Colorado, New Mexico and California would all go Mexico... or god forbid Texas. This guy never heard of Aztlan?

What a fucking retard... (not to insult real retards.)

[leftstreet]

14. Meh. I though the plan was WA & OR join with Canada

I was all for that.

[bananas]

15. and California and a few others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map
http://www.jesusland.com/

[HowHasItComeToThis]

18. and Alaska will revert to Russian control WANT SARAH, TAKE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:crazy: :think: :smoke: :eyes: :crazy: :think: :think:

[Deja Q]

22. Yup. The Alaska one is the funniest. He's like Pavel Chekov but for real..

[xchrom]

3. idiot. nt

[Ikonoklast]

6. Before or after the alien UFO invasion?

Russia is a third-world country east of the Urals.

When oil and gas revenues taper off, and they will, eventually, what exactly does Russia have to fall back on to keep its' economy going?

[madrchsod]

7. he`s a funny guy......

[cobalt1999]

8. How does one get the title "Top Russian Scholar"?

Because either Russia has a REALLY crappy group of scholars if this guy is considered TOP, or the standards need to be raised on the title.

[Deja Q]

20. In America, we earn the titles. In Russia, the title earns you. He won it in a cracker jack box.

[geardaddy]

9. This is the guy, right?

[sellitman]

10. Alaska in Russian control?

Quick call Sarah!

[Deja Q]

21. More proof it's a wet dream for Igor the Tiny...

[ccharles000]

26. lol

[BlueIdaho]

11. Because Russian's

Have been soooooo right about everything else during the last couple of decades.

[spanone]

12. bwahahahahaaaa

[geardaddy]

16. Desperately trying to stay relevant?

:shrug:

[fishwax]

17. lol

[Deja Q]

19. Oh goody. Igor the Magnificent presiding gloom and doom and saying Russia will get Alaska.

(yeah, Governor Palin will really allow that... Igor's full of half-truths at best. And gay men having nothing to do with any of it.)

[readmoreoften]

23. Homophobia is a huge problem in Eastern Europe.

True.

[Sabriel]

24. Damn! I took 2012 in the office pool

I knew I should've been more pessimistic.

There goes my 5 bucks.

[Sultana]

25. O_o

that's all

[Stevenmarc]

27. Someone forgot to put on their tin foil ushanka

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. "Foreign Ministry’s school for future diplomats" Read: Future Liars. n/t

[LeftinOH]

30. Jesus-- Sometimes they really make one nostalgic for the USSR..

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Duh!

Still thinking it's the cold war. Just a ridiculous prediction.
GAC

[bullwinkle428]

33. School shootings? 1995 called...it wants its "hot topics" back!