US, like USSR, will crumble—Russian envoy
MANILA, Philippines—Is the American Dream finally coming to an end?
With the financial crisis worsening in the United States, the world's lone superpower could start breaking up into six different territories by the end of the year.
This was the assessment made by the dean of Russia's diplomatic academy Tuesday morning during a lecture at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Professor Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst who heads the Russian Foreign Ministry's diplomatic academy, likened the current crisis in the US to the last days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the late 1980s and said that US President Barack Obama would not be able to do anything about his country's economic meltdown and eventual "disintegration."
“I've studied the history of the United States and my conclusion is that the US has no future...The fall of Wall Street last year could be likened to the end of the American Dream,” said Panarin, who predicted as early 1998 that the US would eventually collapse.
“Obama will not be able to do anything. He is like (the USSR's last leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, who had beautiful words to say but when it came to work, it was a different matter. Obama is the American version of Gorbachev,” he said.
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