According to the WSJ, Russian academic Igor Panarin predicts that the good ‘ol USA will dissolve due to “mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation” which will then cause a civil war, as early as next fall.
The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in. California will form the nucleus of what he calls “The Californian Republic,” and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of “The Texas Republic,” a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an “Atlantic America” that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls “The Central North American Republic.” Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.
Read more in the Wall Street Journal.
Considering the Soviet Union collapsed, it’s always a possibility, albeit a remote one. I kinda think we’re better than that.
