Igor Panarin runs through my head

[Ztolkins]

I remember reading about Panarin, a Russian academic (as he's described), after the '08 election and thought he was nuts. He predicted a Soviet-like collapse would take place by 2010. Clearly, that didn't happen but this article from the WSJ back then resonates a better today. Some of the details, like "The California Republic" being under Chinese control, are a bit absurd:

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.

He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123051100709638419

I've a feeling Russia has been working on this kind of outcome for awhile now