Ex-KGB predictor of doom finds friends in U.S. Tea Party Movement

  Russian analyst and ex-KGB operative Igor Panarin wants the U.S. to enjoy its last eight months. Because after that, the world’s sole superpower will be embroiled in a civil war that will destroy it. This message has found an audience in the radical right wing Tea Party movement. Mass immigration, economic decline, racial tensions ...

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Russian analyst and ex-KGB operative Igor Panarin wants the U.S. to enjoy its last eight months. Because after that, the world’s sole superpower will be embroiled in a civil war that will destroy it. This message has found an audience in the radical right wing Tea Party movement.

Mass immigration, economic decline, racial tensions and moral degradation will spark the war that leads to this civil war and subsequent splitting of the United States. These are same fears expressed at Tea Party rallies throughout the US.

In Panarin’s dystopia the south will go to Mexico. The Northeast will go to the E.U. The Midwest will go to Canada. The West Coast will go to China and Alaska will go back to Russia.

This theory has become moderately popular in Russia; however the Tea Party movement in the United States is his newest fan.    

Fans of irony take note. The people who say the U.S. is headed toward Socialism, or Fascism, or both, or whatever, are paying an ex-KGB academic to speak at their conferences. At a speech in Houston, Panarin said Texas’ talk of secession — consisting largely of Chuck Norris’ offer to run for president and the controversy surrounding immigration is a sign that the end is nigh for the U.S.A.

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Bobby Pierce is an editorial researcher at Foreign Policy.

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