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| The US disintegrating by 2010? Not likely...in that time frame. US self-destruction has been a Russian and Soviet theme for decades. The Russians should know...having watched their own Union disintegrate. But what does "disintegrate" mean? Dis-integrate. Break into pieces. Is that so really unlikely? It is if you don't know history. Strangely missing from the hysteria over a Russian academic's prediction is the existence of a well reasoned study of the same topic by an American academic and venture capitalist Juan Enriquez. You can read his book "The Untied States of America" ("un-tied", get it?) Enriquez has a 50 year time frame and he's not predicting (much less hoping for) dis-integration of the US into smaller countries. But he points out that not only is it possible, there's evidence the US is on this seemingly unlikely trajectory. Reality check: ALL states disintegrate over time. Anyone who doesn't know this hasn't thought about the last 200 years of history. In fact, the US came pretty darn close to dis-integrating less than 150 years ago. But US dis-integration by the end of 2010? That's a heck of a projection. |
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