The U.S. to Suffer Civil War--So Says a Russian Academic

"As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.," by Andrew Osborn. Wall Street Journal, Vol. CCLII, No. 152, Monday, 29 December 2008, p. A1.

Igor Panarin, a Russian professor predicts that the US will suffer a civil war and split into several parts in 2010. The dollar will collapse and "an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S." The U.S. will become the California Republic, the Central North American Republic, the Atlantic America, and the Texas Republic. Alaska will go back to Russia and Hawaii will go to China or Japan.

The theory is getting some attention with the Russian press and, as the article says, it indicates the level of anti-Americanism in Russia. It also shows how little they understand about the U.S.