I wouldn’t usually bother posting clips from Russia Today, but for those of you who wanted to get a look at Russia’s newest media celebrity, Igor Panarin, this one should do the trick. According to Panarin, the United States is due break apart into six different countries by 2010 (Florida, for example, becomes part of Mexico). It’s not surprising that Panarin has these far-fetched predictions, or the fact that he has held these beliefs for about a decade, but rather how eagerly this platform is being pushed on Russian state television.
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I don’t see anything surprising about it.Anyone can see there’s a very real risk that Russia itself will collapse again (it would be the third or forth time in a century such has occurred), and the financial crisis has driven this message home to the average Russian in a way that has caused the Kremlin to panic. It is totally unqualified and unprepared to deal with economic calamity,and it’s only response is to crush reporting of facts about it and attempt to distract the population’s attention by saying, just as in Soviet times, that America is even worse.With no real reporting about America and few Americans in country, there is little real information available to the ordinary Russian to contradict this message, and many will believe it — just as they were suckered in Soviet times into accepting the failed polices of the Politburo and allowing their country to implode.If anything is surprising here it’s your unwillingness to point your finger at the people of Russia and condemn them for producing lunatics like this and then giving them so much traction, even as they pretend to be a cultured and educated people entitled to look down their noses at ignorant Americans.
This should be taken in a context of another fact. He was hired in April 2006 as a press secretary for the Russian Space Agency to improve its image after a numerous accidents in the Russian space program in 2005-2006. I guess you can see the pattern here…
I think it is no wonder.evrything has certain age .so does the age of superpowers.If the repression element of such is eliminated they could exist but how come.The american haulocaust has to pay back.The most brutal external terror arm CIA has played havoc on the US destiny.