Russian diplomat says USA looks as though it is going to break-up. What would *you* do first if it did?
A Russian diplomat says the USA is on the verge of breaking up. Citing that many Americans are no longer trustful of the U.S. government's actions or it seeing the need to operate in their best interests. So to play the devil's advocate:
If the USA broke-up and dissolved as a country tomorrow? What would be the first thing that you would do?
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Article: US will collapse and break up, Russian analyst predicts - By Tom Leonard in New York
Date: Last Updated: 10:58PM GMT 25 Nov 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk - The Telegraph Newspaper of the UK
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3521671/US-will-collapse-and-break-up-Russian-analyst-predicts.html
-- The United States will collapse under the burden of its financial crisis and fracture into six parts, a Russian political analyst has predicted. --
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Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian foreign affairs ministry, said the economic turmoil in the US had confirmed his long-held belief that the country was heading for extinction in its present form.
In an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, he outlined how the US would divide along ethnic and cultural lines.
They are: the Pacific coast with its growing Chinese population; the increasingly Hispanic South; independence-minded Texas; the Atlantic Coast; a central state with a large Native American population; and the northern states where – he maintains – Canadian influence is strong.
Alaska could be claimed by Russia, he said, claiming that the region was "only granted on lease, after all".
He said the country's break-up would be accelerated by rising unemployment and Americans losing their savings.
"The dollar isn't secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche; this is a pyramid, which has to collapse," said Prof Panarin.
Public dissatisfaction was growing and was held back only by the election and the hope that Barack Obama "can work miracles", he said. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
Prof Panarin, who has written several books about "information warfare", also forecast that America would no longer be "the world's financial regulator", instead replaced by China and Russia.
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