Civil War 2?…or America will survive.
You’ve gotta wonder sometimes….especially when even trusted and respected news sources like the WSJ print articles like this without any kind of rebuttal on some obviously ridiculous, almost parody-like silly comments. Let me give you a brief synopsis. According to some ultra-right wing Russian nationalist the US will dissolve into several disparate states at some point in the next 2-3 years…Take a look at the map at the bottom of the article to full appreciate the stupidity of this former KGB analyst’s theory, and his obvious complete lack of understanding of the geo-political climate here inside the US.
First off I think the esteemed Professor Panerin completely lacks even a basic understanding of the American culture. This is a culture that is strongest when there is massive internal disagreement. The whole concept of American freedoms is based on the concept of diversity. This is an idea you never fully understand until you are immersed into it. And it is a concept that will guarantee the cultural dominance of America for many centuries to come. Governments of Russia, China, Japan, and other homogeneous cultures do not have the ability to adapt, grow, shrink, and otherwise change on short order like that of America. Case in point, after a 12 year politically conservative dynasty who drilled “Just Say No” into our subconscious we elected a man who admitted to smoking pot to the White House. After 8 years of moderate left wing political rule under the Clinton administration we elected a fundamentalist right wing Christian to the White House. Even after he was given the opportunity to show us his true right wing, hawk colors in the first 4 years of his administration we sent George W back for another 4 years. This last November we pulled a complete 180 degree turn and sent a man to Washington who bears a name in the style of the culture we have been politically and media trained to hate, Barak Hussien Obama. No where else in the world could this happen. Even our closest sister nations like Canada and the UK the opposing parties are very much just different shades of socialism.
Think of the diverse political and culture beliefs internal to the US as those of a functioning household. Siblings, all the states and communities within those states struggle and strain against one another to sit at the table with all the others. Many times there are fights between these siblings and ideals collide dramatically. But it only takes the mere shadow of an outside threat to unify the house against the external threat. Like the big brother who teases and tortures his little sister every day will instantly drop all regard for his own personal safety to defend her against a neighborhood bully so did the men and women of every state within the US rush to military recruiting depots in the year after 9/11 to go to Afghanistan.
If you know me, or have read any of my previous posts you will know that I am no fan of the federal government. But things are a long way from all out civil war, and if China, or the EU or Mexico, or Russia has any designs on absorbing, annexing or otherwise influencing how the US will look in the next decade they have another thing coming. The whole problem inside the US today is the feeling of outside control…outside our own communities the last thing that will happen is for the people of Alaska or Texas, or Oregon to replace Washington D.C. with Russia, Mexico or China. And to allude that anything like this could ever be possible demonstrates that Professor Panerin’s credentials on the U.S. are fictional. With analyst and intel like this is no wonder the Soviets are dead.