The Russians Are Coming! And the Chinese, Canadians, EU… and Mexico…
Russia appears to be at it with the psychological warfare again.
This time, Russian “professor” Igor Panarin is spreading FUD about the future of the United States by predicting its dissolution by 2010.
He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. 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.
His former KGB credentials, use of FAPSI data (Russian “NSA”), and speech at an Austrian “information warfare” conference weaken the case for his objectivity.
However, it’s hard to picture things getting so bad that Americans are eager to fall under the sphere of Mexican, Chinese, or Russian influence (although I’m sure that Russia would love to “reclaim” Alaska and Mexican “reconquistas” would welcome renewed control of their “rightful” lands).
Then again, were American political will or military capability weakened, it’s not too hard to picture Russia reclaiming Alaskan territory.
Perhaps the Red Dawn remake will feature this scenario? Either way, allow me to be the first to cry “Wolverines!”
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