From the ever brilliant BldgBlog, we get former KGB analyst Igor Panarin’s envisioning of the distribution of Post-American America, as explained in the Wall Street Journal. Panarin predicts that the US will “disintegrate” in the Summer of 2010 and that it will break into six regions. While Panarin’s handy map seems both naive and silly to residents of the US (while I think the US will eventually break into smaller states, Panarin’s timeline and breakdown seems like something cooked up on a lazy afternoon), isn’t it fun to be discussed abroad in these terms? Surely that, in itself is interesting.
I like his particularly grim Russin outlook on the situation faced by the US today:
Americans hope President-elect Barack Obama “can work miracles,” he wrote. “But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”
What, no miracles? But I was promised miracles, unicorns and rainbows!
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But doesn’t he know the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012? Silly Russian, no Trix for you.