Russian Scholar Says Amerika is Doomed

[Tarheel]

I'm sure that I've posted at least one article in this forum before about this Rooskie and his dire predictions about Amerika.  He apparently drank a fifth or two of cheap vodka again before presenting this latest lecture about our end.  Now that The ONE is our dear leader he may not be too far off the mark this time.  I did think that there were several reasons of his that were humorous.  And he did cite the moral decline in Amerika as one of the reasons for our imminent collapse which I'm sure will send our libertarian friends into apoplectic shock.

This article is from Brietbart.com and, as usual, all emphasis is my own:

Russian scholar says US will collapse _ next year 
 
Mar 4  By MIKE ECKEL
 
MOSCOW (AP) - If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.

Panarin might be easy to ignore but for the fact that he is a dean at the Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels. And his predictions fit into the anti-American story line of the Kremlin leadership.

"There is a high probability that the collapse of the United States will occur by 2010," Panarin told dozens of students, professors and diplomats Tuesday at the Diplomatic Academy—a lecture the ministry pointedly invited The Associated Press and other foreign media to attend.

The prediction from Panarin, a former spokesman for Russia's Federal Space Agency and reportedly an ex-KGB analyst, meshes with the negative view of the U.S. that has been flowing from the Kremlin in recent years, in particular from Vladimir Putin.

Putin, the former president who is now prime minister, has likened the United States to Nazi Germany's Third Reich and blames Washington for the global financial crisis that has pounded the Russian economy.

Panarin didn't give many specifics on what underlies his analysis, mostly citing newspapers, magazines and other open sources.

He also noted he had been predicting the demise of the world's wealthiest country for more than a decade now.

But he said the recent economic turmoil in the U.S. and other "social and cultural phenomena" led him to nail down a specific timeframe for "The End"—when the United States will break up into six autonomous regions and Alaska will revert to Russian control.

Panarin argued that Americans are in moral decline, saying their great psychological stress is evident from school shootings, the size of the prison population and the number of gay men.

Turning to economic woes, he cited the slide in major stock indexes, the decline in U.S. gross domestic product and Washington's bailout of banking giant Citigroup as evidence that American dominance of global markets has collapsed.

"I was there recently and things are far from good," he said. "What's happened is the collapse of the American dream."

Panarin insisted he didn't wish for a U.S. collapse, but he predicted Russia and China would emerge from the economic turmoil stronger and said the two nations should work together, even to create a new currency to replace the U.S. dollar.

Asked for comment on how the Foreign Ministry views Panarin's theories, a spokesman said all questions had to be submitted in writing and no answers were likely before Wednesday.

It wasn't clear how persuasive the 20-minute lecture was. One instructor asked Panarin whether his predictions more accurately describe Russia, which is undergoing its worst economic crisis in a decade as well as a demographic collapse that has led some scholars to predict the country's demise.

Panarin dismissed that idea: "The collapse of Russia will not occur."

But Alexei Malashenko, a scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center who did not attend the lecture, sided with the skeptical instructor, saying Russia is the country that is on the verge of disintegration.

"I can't imagine at all how the United States could ever fall apart," Malashenko told the AP.

The Link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96N3GCG0&show_article=1

[GarMan]

 

The Soviet Union was such a great success; we now have a President trying to enact the same policies of that "Great Society". 

[ssgaufan]

gay men

So now gay men are to blame?  Sure glad that gay women aren't.

[Tarheel]

gay men

So now gay men are to blame?  Sure glad that gay women aren't.

I see by the lack of activity on this board that the gay-marriage-friendly libertarians are still in hiding...but, yes, I'd say gay men are as good an excuse as anything else...that moral decline of this nation and all...


(sarcasm)

(for those from Tuscaloosa)

[GarMan]

I see by the lack of activity on this board that the gay-marriage-friendly libertarians are still in hiding...but, yes, I'd say gay men are as good an excuse as anything else...that moral decline of this nation and all...

In some ways, the Ruskie is correct, but his opinions are a bit jaded and extreme.  I do agree that the acceptance of open homosexuality, along with other deviant behaviors and conditions, is evidence of a society in moral decline.  Thanks to Hollywood and militant Leftists...  no doubt!  BUT, the American Dream has been and still is alive and well.  People just forgot the part about having to earn it, and the gubm't indoctrination centers (aka public schools) are specifically excluding concepts of work, sacrifice, achievement, risk-to-reward and accomplishment out of the American Dream lesson plan.  These younger generations are intellectually challenged and extraordinarily weak.  It’s easy for them to buy in to wealth-envy and to accept Socialist ideals espoused by The O’bama and his merry band of halfwits. 

[Tarheel]

In some ways, the Ruskie is correct, but his opinions are a bit jaded and extreme.  I do agree that the acceptance of open homosexuality, along with other deviant behaviors and conditions, is evidence of a society in moral decline.  Thanks to Hollywood and militant Leftists...  no doubt!  BUT, the American Dream has been and still is alive and well.  People just forgot the part about having to earn it, and the gubm't indoctrination centers (aka public schools) are specifically excluding concepts of work, sacrifice, achievement, risk-to-reward and accomplishment out of the American Dream lesson plan.  These younger generations are intellectually challenged and extraordinarily weak.  It’s easy for them to buy in to wealth-envy and to accept Socialist ideals espoused by The O’bama and his merry band of halfwits. 

Wow!  What a great old-fashioned concept...actually having to earn the American Dream.

[AUTiger1]

This sense of entitlement is really chapping my ass to be honest with you.  What ever happened to people working hard for what they earned and deserved?

[AUTiger1]

This sense of entitlement is really chapping my ass to be honest with you.  What ever happened to people working hard for what they earned and deserved?

Don't answer that.  It was a rhetorical question anyways.

[Tarheel]

Don't answer that.  It was a rhetorical question anyways.

I was going to post a lengthy rant...