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Baloney. Sounds like sour grapes to me. The US population, IMHO, are the most determined, imaginative and resourceful people in the world. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Stand aside, Igor.
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I think his analysis is mostly wishful thinking, but an economic collapse could lead to one or more of the larger states seceding from the union.
California is large and rich enough to go it alone, but they probably wouldn't secede with Obama as president. Now that democrats control the congress and the presidency, California will most likely stick with Washington D.C. no matter how bad things get.
Texas is most likely to secede in my opinion. It too is large enough and wealthy enough to be independent and now Texas is estranged from Washington D.C. politically.
Florida and New York could both also probably be independent but I question whether they would have the will to actually secede.
I posted this in the earlier thread, it applies here too:
Good old Col Igor Panarin is still kicking around and making his mischief. I had completely forgotten about this old manipulator, a product of the "good old days" of the USSR:
Colonel Igor Panarin of FAPSI, speaking at a conference in 1997, stated that there is a need in Russia to develop information-psychological subunits in government and military directorates. The role of these departments would be to develop strategic and operational measures to prevent or neutralize attempts to control the psyche of Russian society (what he termed the “strategy of psychological defense”). A Main Directorate in Support of Psychological Security would ensure the psychological component of Russian national security.
Methods of persuasion are an IW weapon specifically oriented against the psychological security of individuals. The primary Russian information weapon in this regard is a concept known as reflexive control (RC), also called “intellectual IW.” RC is defined as a means of conveying to a partner or an opponent specially prepared information to incline him to voluntarily make the predetermined decision desired by the initiator of the action. There are scientific and mathematical components as well as varied military and technical uses of RC. As previously noted, the goals of RC are to distract; overload; paralyze; exhaust; deceive; divide; pacify; deter; provoke; suggest; or pressure an opponent with information.
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