Congratulations, Igor. You made Drudge!
As a symptom of our dicey times, a hitherto unknown (to us) Russian “Doctor of Political Sciences” named Igor Panarin has made the top of the Drudge Report this morning with the screaming headline:
RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA.
Does he really?
I made the usual ten-second Google search and came up with this short bio of Igor. It was fascinating (though not surprising). It seems our Russian friend is the author of the following books: “Infowar and power”, “Infowar and world” and the ever popular “Infowar and election.” Infowar, eh? You don’t have to be the proverbial rocket scientist to know where that comes from. Well, he certainly earned his keep today and scored a big victory getting his risible comments about an imminent US break up on Drudge. Must be a slow news day:
He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
Well, come to think of it, maybe that’s not such a bad idea. We all have some distant relatives we wish lived in another country. And my daughter could attend Yale on a foreign exchange scholarship. Easy to get in and easier still on my pocketbook. And think of the bonanza to Fodor’s – all those new guidebook serieses. I’m already getting my visa to San Diego.
And we’d finally be done with the old criticism that Americans never travel abroad.
Time for California to secede.
Combine this with the breakup of Canada and we will have a central region overrun with war whooping Indians and funded by oil. Speaking as a resident, I think joining a few raiding parties into California would be lots of fun. Burn, baby, burn.
“the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong”
Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
I want to be a Texan. Would George Bush eligle to run for President?
Given the steep decrease in Russian birthrates and the increased lowering of lifespan, methinks it’s Russia that’s in decline.
As a resident of the future Republic of Texas, I would take great, unfathomable comfort in knowing that Reid-Pelosi-Frank did not run my government.
Then again, we’d have to start massive border patrol efforts on the northern and western borders to control the massive illegals trying to get into Texas as they flee the bankrupt and collapsing economies of California (unless the Chinese take it over) and the Eastern seaboard nation.
I think we need to break the Atlantic states into South and them thar damnyankees. Watch as the damnyankees beg for the ability to move down South, rather then just picking up and moving as they are doing now, emptying the great swamps of Joisey.
Oh, and the fact that the damnyankees would mostly starve because they make little more then other little liberals would be amusing, too!
-And my daughter could attend Yale on a foreign exchange scholarship.
Yeah, like ubamas did when he went to Harvard.
Bmoon:
Yeah, but we would need to build a fence and cut all power and communication with Travis County too (let me & wife out first.) This place is as moonbatty as California, just in a smaller version. But, the unfortunate truth is, Austin is such a wonderful place to live, that I have to put up with them.
Webrider,
No, no, no. We could not wall off The Broken Spoke, Antone’s, Barton Springs and UT football from the future Republic. We could however institute a basic history-economics-civics test as a prerequisite for voting that will effectively end any tilting to Leftist policies.
And those illegals..of course I meant Yankee illegals. I can live with the Mexicans.
Bmoon:
Hmm, y’all may have a good idea about instituting a test. I bet all those Tarrytown/Enfield libs that control our local politics would fail it, big time.
I found this article fascinating, not because of what it tells us about America (which is similar to what we heard from John Titor and about as valid). It’s fascinating because without realizing it he’s given us a very good window into what is going on in Russia and how they perceive it.
Considering that they’re doing a slow-motion re-invasion of their old soviet possessions, this is a valuable perspective to understand.
I met the Governor at a Barnes & Nobles in Houston and was able to chat with him for 20 minutes. He told me that he reads PJM, especially, he mentioned, Victor David Hanson. Maybe he will read this and we can cull the dumb voters around UT from the registration lists, especially those that majored in subjects like “Gay” Studies, and “Womyn” Studies.
Maybe San Diego will finally be able to move the official weather station from Lindbergh Field. It rains too much around here for us to get only 10″ a year.
Oh, yeah – Texas as an independent country! Did it before, can do it again. Even with having to hang onto Austin; it’s just a reminder of how very much worse California is!
I really want make fun of Igor, but the influence of Canada is just too overpowering here in Michigan! They might haul my Russo-phobic a%# in front of a “Human Rights Commission” or something. Detained as an anti-social element pending re-education. I can’t risk it, “cousin” — I simply can’t.
… and what? Alaska returns to Mother Russia?!
Well, I’d be part of the “poor midwest states” being in Tulsa OK. But I like it here.
I’d like to think that we could return to the original plan of our founders, which was sovereign, independent States __in Union__. You know, that whole separate but different thing.
I don’t see why not. Every state in the union is larger than at least a few complete countries elsewhere – with perhaps the exception of a smaller state such as Rhode Island.
Fun thought. but gonna happen? Prolly not. But then again, there’s a lot going on right now that I never though could possibly happen in America. A recent election comes to mind.
Roger,you are not sending Maddie to Dartmouth?
My father was a Texan. Would I have dual citizenship? And my mother was born in North Carolina. Would I have thriple(?) citizenship? This could be good.
It’s amazing how much poor analysis there is about America outside our borders. I bet if you saw this guys analysis last year he would have concluded that America was an apartheid state. I think he’s projecting his own Russian identity politics onto the USA.
America’s decline is set in stone and cannot be avoided or stopped. But since today’s America is one I am increasingly inclined to hate, its breakup would not be all that bad, so long as I live in one of the new “red” states. Texas would be fine, North Dakota, too, and so long as Washington, D.C. et. al. leave me tne hell alone.
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Apparently Ruskie talking heads are just as stupid as our own.
The Europeans have been predicting the end of the United States since the Treaty of Paris. Given that their only view of the US is based largely upon the input from MSM and Hollywood [which are about a good indicator of the real situation as the 'internal' documents the CIA purloined and relied upon to base their assessments of the former Soviet Union, sorta missed the collapse when it happened], why would such a observation not occur? Both authors, American or Soviet, constructed their ‘information’ to satisfy their audiences, not to report the facts.
I wonder if Igor Panarin has ever spent time in the US beyond brief visits.
There was a book out years ago entitled something like, “Nine Nations of North America”. The guy Drudge mentions probably just now found a copy of it somewhere and recalculated based on changed demographics.
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I watched some TV news in Russia when I was there last summer, and have been hearing accounts about Russian TV news since. According to them, Americans are all committing suicide because we’ve lost our jobs, our banks have failed, and we have lost all of our money deposited in the banks. (No, they don’t discuss deposit insurance – the point being made is that America is suffering far more in the “ekonomitishiskii krisis” than You-Know-Where.) Watching Russian TV, it would be easy to conclude that the United States is on the cusp of a violent revolution.
America is already broken up into 50 “parts”. If the federal government would stop attempting to make even the smallest policy decisions monolithic across the entire country, states would be freer to enact laws that more closely reflect the values and culture of that region and the economy of that particular area.
I, for one, am in favor of returning the Senate to being appointed by the state legislatures.
Boojum: Precisely. I think the Russkies need to take the plank out of their eye before trying to remove the mote from ours.
Read the whole thing–” He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska – it was only granted on lease, after all.” ” Really? The man really believes this? There is no reading of the treaty of cession that could result in this interpretation–it is simply, and demonstrably, untrue.
Hear, hear! Repeal the 17th Amendment!
Looks like Igor has been watching reruns of Jericho on CBS.
Webrider, BMoon, what I tell people is that if you want good food, art, and music, you need to have some liberals around. They can be tolerated in appropriate numbers
I’ve moved back to Austin after a long stint in Silicon Valley (but don’t shoot me, I’m a Longhorn!), and let me tell you, Austin may be liberal but it ain’t coastal California. This is workable! Viva Texas! 
Is this doofus related to the British doofus who went off on “The Olive Garden” restaurants a couple of years ago?
I find it both amazing and amusing that people who would undoubtedly think no American could understand “Europe” without learning about all the parts seem to be ready and willing to spout off about very large parts of the US about which they obviously no nothing at all.
Actually given the uneven distribution of military bases it wouldn’t be hard to imagine a strong compact nation with a more belligerent attitude towards warfare emerging. Without the blue states which have run military bases out and have strong peace groups which are astroturfed by organizations wanting to get richer through high taxes and domestic spending there very well may be far less of an internal brake on military action.
Guess what world. Be careful what you wish for.
The “influence from Canada” line alone is worth the price of admission!
And, hey I live in Texas, and we like the Lone Star flag and all, but I can’t say I know anybody who’s pushing for secession… I think the football rivalries keep us enough apart.
They sure is a lots of Texans on here. Requerde el Alamo. What happens to Oklahoma?
“Hear, hear! Repeal the 17th Amendment!”
The idea that the states should lose their check on federal government power and the Senate turned basically into another House of Representatives was a bad one. It was an “experiment” of the early 1900′s “Progressive Era” and I believe it has turned the Senate into a circus. The people have their check on the federal government in the House. The states currently have none. The idea that the Senate should be held accountable by the states was an important piece of the overall checks and balances on federal government power.
Oh, and it would act as a great economic “bailout” by eliminating billions of dollars from Senate campaigns and leaving that money in the economy.
We might actually get some “butt-ugly” Senators that couldn’t run a glitzy campaign but who are actually quite bright and know their state’s issues inside and out. It would be more about getting things done than “how things look” in public opinion polls.
When Texas becomes independent I want to take back the parts we lost when we became a state. You know, most of New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas.
Having our own seperate power grid will make this easier. Lots of good military bases will come with us.
In all six new nations whites will be expected to foot the bill and take the grief.
As a Russian-American with ties to Russia, I must tell you, this is typical
of paranoid dreams in the country, this nut is an “expert”.Now imagine what ordinary people think. Thanks God I’m
here not there.
This is the source of “Igor’s” information.
Another Texan here, sad to say that Texas is pretty much overrun already. The southern border is a joke, and all the Californian refugees are fleeing here and then voting for the same stuff they did in California. Actually, the all the immigrants seem to come from socialist areas and miss the connection between voting for those policies and the wrecks their states/countries are in. Did you see how blue we voted in the last election?
We could pull another Alamo, but I think we’re short on Sam Houstons and there’s no San Jacinto in sight.
I won’t give up, but Alaska’s a better bet.
Luckily, the polarization is not nearly as bad as it seems (nationally). It’s the media and the politicians that are polarizing, the citizenry is pretty purple. Give Fiorina’s Culture War? a read – decades of polls and voting statistics.
Hell, any part of us could whip their sorry asses–I’d even bet on New England, although watching Texas take ‘em on would be more fun.
In another 20-30 years Russia is going to be more empty than west Texas–well, except for the Chinese, of course.
I agree that we should let Oklahoma people be part of Texas. We already solved the liberal problem in Austin. They can live there and keep giving good music, art, and food, even expand the Texan movie industry, but they can’t vote unless they pass the history-economics-civics test that Harvard’s finest couldn’t get better than a D- on.
And we get Ft. Hood and the 4th Calvary. Don’t mess with Texas.
Uh, that’s the 1st Cavalry and the 4th ID. But, to offset the Cav, you would also get the 1st Armored out of Bliss. Sounds like a net win to me.
I get the feeling that Igor hasn’t talked to any Canadians about our powerful influence – although North Dakota almost feels like home… compared to Indiana that is.
I get the feeling there were a lot of Canadians sitting in the dark on Nov 4 whispering quietly:
“what do we do if the warmonger wins? we have a lot of oil…”
“shhh! they don’t KNOW that”
I notice Igor didn’t put Alaska into any of the regions … does that mean the Russians mean to take it back?
After all, we can see Russia from our front porch! Wait ’til the Ruskies get a load of our Sarah … they’ll surrender in a week!
To Frank Secede or be voted off of the island?
The worst part of the statement was the comment that Alaska was granted on lease. Completely untrue, of course, but it is by spreading such talk and stoking such sentiment that future invasions get their support.
Hey MCG, welcome back! I deal with a lot of people coming back, as well as newbies moving in and after a couple of days of showing them around Austin and property values here, they’re sold. They can’t believe how wonderful the place is. What I really need to do is develop a “belongs in Austin” test for them, before agreeing to help them find a home. Maybe I could chase a few of the lefties from Ca & NY away? It’d be worth it.
A Russian predicting the breakup of the United States? Can anyone say “Boris and Natasha”?
It shouldn’t even garner a glance from the media. Putin is busy resurrecting the USSR, so propaganda really isn’t surprising – but nor should attention be paid to this kind of drivel.
What’s strange to me is that he broke up the U.S. into racial groupings, in addition to geographic borders: the Chinese out west, the Hispanics in the south? What primer is he reading, something from the last century? The leftist illuminati, if they notice this at all, should be up in arms over the idea that, were America to split up, it would be along racial lines.
If conservatives and liberals can agree on anything, it should be that something like this is rubbish.