Russian Scholar Predicts Economic Crisis Will Rip America Apart

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A Russian scholar is predicting that the United States' current financial crisis will lead to the breakup of the country.

Igor Panarin, a professor at the diplomatic academy of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the newspaper Izvestia on Monday that America will break apart into six regions following the crisis.

"Dissatisfaction is growing, and it is only being held back at the moment by the elections, and the hope that [President-elect] Obama can work miracles," according to a translation by Bloomberg. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."

Panarin predicts the U.S. will split into: the Pacific, the South, Texas, the Atlantic coast, the central states and the northern states, and hinted that Alaska could be Russia's for the taking.

The professor said China and Russia will become the world's great regulators.

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Re: Russian Scholar Predicts Economic Crisis Will Rip America Apart

Russian Professor Says U.S. Will Break Up After Economic Crisis

By Robin Stringer
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A professor at the diplomatic academy of Russia?s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the U.S. will break into six parts because of the nation?s financial crisis.

?The dollar isn?t secured by anything,? Igor Panarin said in an interview transcribed by Russian newspaper Izvestia today. ?The country?s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche; this is a pyramid, which has to collapse.?

Panarin said in the interview that the financial crisis will worsen, unemployment will rise and people will lose their savings -- factors that will cause the country?s breakup.

?Dissatisfaction is growing, and it is only being held back at the moment by the elections, and the hope? that President- elect Barack Obama ?can work miracles,? he said. ?But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles.?

The U.S. will fracture into six parts: the Pacific coast; the South; Texas; the Atlantic coast, central states and the northern states.

?Now we will see a change to the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will cease to be the world?s regulator,? to be replaced by China and Russia, he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Robin Stringer in New York at rstringer@bloomberg.net.

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