Russian Academic Predicts US Disunion
Today's Wall Street Journal has an article about a Russian professor that is getting a lot of attention because of his prediction that the current economic crisis will lead to a break-up of the United States in the year 2010.
He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.Goodness! That is quite a prediction. I suppose I should mock this, but then they laughed when the collapse of the Soviet Union was predicted...
California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.
I guess it could be worse. Here in Ohio I'll take being subsumed by those evil Canadians over some of the other options...
HT to Pascal
Labels: united states
posted by Cartophiliac @ Monday, December 29, 2008
9 Comments
9 Comments:
too bad this guy doesn't understand anything about US demographics and motivations. i can see independent states, but ceding control to China or Mexico? and Idaho joining up with California for anything?
Basically, it is envy and resentment over the fact that they lost the cold war... and their empire.
At the very least I'd have Utah being on its own, and Kentucky/Tennessee not joining the atlantic bloc. The south probably wouldn't be to happy with being under a Mexican thumb either.
Yes, it is quite silly.
I do not think it is out of the realm of possibility that an economic crisis could wreck this country. No one is completely immune to cataclysm... but his notions of HOW the country might divide show extreme naive ignorance of American regional differences.
I, for one, welcome our new Californian overlords....
I'm sorry, NY and S. Carolina are in the same bloc???? Clearly this person has never ... been to or met anyone from either of these states.
rp
this guy is nuts...he know nothing about the us....We are all american from the state of.....What I mean is w ae irst americans and then rom some state. Also, he doen't get the clear fact that american from all states have been moving around the country for 100 years o more and who's to really say wnat sae your from...I grew up in Michigan but I leae in Hong Kong...hummm where do I go for my new state or country...he nuts ...R
Should Operation Ophelia fail after catastrophic events or another breakdown of the USA were to occur, it would only be a matter of time before China's 400 million fit for active duty soldiers participated in a massive eastward land grab. Canadian, Mexican, UN influenced areas? Steamrolled by the People's Liberation Army.
lol, I think it more likely Mexico will fall under Texas influence. Oh wait, much of it already has...
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