Would Minnesota and the Midwest join Canada if the U.S. collapses?
Graphic courtesy of Wall Street JournalAt least one American blogger likes the idea. Posted at http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2008.12/would_minnesota.php
Well, the United States is really screwed financially and it’s all falling apart. Talk about fear-based journalism written by a Russian. But what if this guy is right?
Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010 and now people are starting to take this once crazy theory a little more seriously.
And a collapsing country could mean a split of the states into surrounding countries with more power, he tells the Wall Street Journal. ”There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur,” he says.
Our threats to move to Canada might come true as Panarin says Minnesota along with other northern states would become part of Canada or go under Canadian influence. All hail the Maple leaf.
More from the WSJ:Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow.
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.
Would it really be so bad being a Canadian? Joining forces with those nice Central North American Republic folks could be quite nice. Maybe we’d miss the West Coast, and New York, but the rest we could bear to lose.
I believe that this would happen, the break up of America is inebitable when the people loose trust in their government. This will take a long time but when money is in short enough supply the ability to enforce will be succumed to nothing. The peoples protest will cause a global outcry and the people will start dieing as they hold on to the USA for the last remaining years.
The starving of American people in large American cities and in the Alaskan state will soon spread to all areas of the USA. The people will start to hunt to survive and fish, and they will start growing large vegtable gardens. The rich will get poorer with Obamas plans and less and less money will be given to charity.
The people will get fed up eventually and will want to join a place like Canada where none of these things are happening. Where they can have a full belly and peace of mind and where they can throw their capitalist American propaganda ideals out the window.
When your time comes to leave, go north and we will take care of you as long as you give us a chance, dont doom yourself on lost hope.
The 1980s book “War Day” postulated something like this in a post WWIII world. (The Soviet Union also collapsed into its ethnic republics.) There was a fascist California (with nearby satellites), an impoverished Hawaiian state (looted by CA), a Georgia Republic (also with nearby satellite states), a Native American run area in New Mexico, and Mexican influence over south Texas. The Midwest was a radioactive wilderness and the NE was a virtual protectorate of Great Britain. A “President of the United States” still existed, but he was an unseen figurehead.