EU gaat over 2 jaar fors uitbreiden

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Als het aan professor Igor Panarin ligt komen pakweg 17 staten aan
Oostkust bij de EU ;)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html
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.
[Prof. Panarin]

Igor Panarin

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his
predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the
attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst,
he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats.
He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books,
and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.

But it'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.

A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not
dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.

"There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he
says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if
we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia."
Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its
economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar
and on trade with the U.S.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and
moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of
the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S.
will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.
[deel incl. nieuwe kaart USA weggelaten]

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