Russian foreign policy expert Igor Panarin keeps pushing his prediction that America will collapse next year with Russian and China becoming the new word's leaders. (And a new global currency, too!). Among Panarin's signs of impending doom, according to the AP: 1) falling financial markets, 2) the recession, 3) the Citigroup bailout. 4) schools shootings, 5) the size of the U.S. prison population, 6) the number of gay men in America.
I think Panarin's ludicrous economic analysis speak for itself. Heck, I could play the same game and predict Russia will collapse because 1) peak oil will ravage its energy-based export economy, 2) its inability to create successful non-commodity companies, 3) shrinking population, 4) unstable democracy, 5) rising ethnic unrest, and on and on. More interesting is that Moscow seems to be actively pushing Panarin's gloomy and distasteful analysis to the media. Seriously, an American collapse would push the world into a Really Great Depression that certainly would be very bad for Russia and China.
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