January 8, 2009 5:30 AM

Wishful thinking...or have Republicans really (&^%$# things up beyond repair this time?

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.... [I]t's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.

IF Igor Panarin is correct (there's no objective evidence to suggest he is, but work with me here), then this great nation could well be in it's death throes. Who knows, two years from now, I could be a Canadian citizen...so maybe Portland will finally get an NHL team, eh?

Of course, Panarin has been pushing his theory in relative obscurity since 1998. Now that it serves the Russian government's purposes, though, the Kremlin is more than willing to embrace Panarin as some sort of expert. So far, the only real impact I can see this having is that American football will finally become an international league...and I won't be living in the same country as George W. Bush. From where I sit, that can only be a good thing, right?

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