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-- California and the Pacific Northwest falling under Chinese influence;
-- the Northeast and Middle Atlantic regions under the EU;
-- Alaska may be returned to Russia; and
-- Hawaii may become a Japanese or Chinese protectorate.
Panarin sees 2010 as America's tipping point and says no miracle rescues can save it. In addition, he cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd's 1976 prediction of the Soviet Union's dissolution that got him laughed at and scorned at the time but proved right.
Todd now predicts a similar fate for the US in his 2002 book, "After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order." He cites:
-- unilateral militarism shows weakness, not strength;
-- America is parasitic, relying on voluntary or extracted "tributes" from vassal states;
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