This is how the US will disintegrate

[snoopy369]

He doesn't even have logical cuts. Why would SC and Tennessee not join the South, which they are much closer to ideologically? If the country would split, it would be pretty much on the lines of the civil war, as far as I can tell, with who knows what happening to the West, and a couple of the plains states (KS, for example) heading with the south this time around.

[onodera]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

Bold claims, no matter how inane, attract viewers. It's not like we're bombarded every day by Panarin's theory. I've never heard of it before reading this post.

[Ming]

Gee... what an expert this bozo is. I'll bet he also thinks that by 2010, Greece will be a part of Turkey

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by MarkG
I think there is problem.
It is clear that Florida would go to Cuba

Pfft. Free of federal restraint, Florida would mobilize quickly and overrun Cuba in a cigar boat-mounted invasion.

[Combat Ingrid]

Ming: Why not? Do you expect it to break away?

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Solomwi
Pfft. Free of federal restraint, Florida would mobilize quickly and overrun Cuba in a cigar boat-mounted invasion.

But then overreach and get stuffed trying to invade St Kitts and Nevis.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by duke o' york


But then overreach and get stuffed trying to invade St Kitts and Nevis.

Only because they'll be out of ammo once the Havana Bucs and Kingston Dolphins are formed.

[duke o' york]

True: forget ploughshares - football helmets are a far better use of melted-down swords.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ming
Gee... what an expert this bozo is.

Well, we are talking about a Russian here.

[onodera]

MrFun, your angling techniques are lacking finesse, especially trolling.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by onodera
MrFun, your angling techniques are lacking finesse, especially trolling.

Well played, my friend.

[Pekka]

Well, the article says this guy was and is being destroyed by others who have credibility as a complete joke. So... I would not be worried that Russian scientific discourse is that different. It's just one nut and his peers pretty much laugh at his general direction. We all have crazy professors.

[duke o' york]

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.

He is welcome to come to any receptions I may hold. This guy's a hoot!

[Asmodean]

Just confirms what I have been saying about Russians all along.

Them's dimwitted peoples

Asmodean

[duke o' york]

I can't believe anyone hasn't altered this map yet. I was tempted to change it to a religious one, but after Scientology for the west, Jebus for the Texan republic and Waspish Protestantism for the east, I couldn't decide what to give the others. Decided it wouldn't have been that funny, which is always a good thing to decide before you post something, but surely someone else can come up with something worthwhile.