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The Third Russian Empire
2007-09-23
ItÂ’s the year 2053, and the world looks very different from today. There are no more than 5 superstates left on the face of the planet:
Great map of the New World at link. If someone could copy into comments, thanks are yours,
• an American Federation, covering the whole of North and South America;
• an Indian Confederation, consisting of present-day India and Birma/Myanmar (Bangladesh seems to have disappeared under the sea);
• an Asian republic dominated by China, further composed of Mongolia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand;
• an Islamic Caliphate, occupying the whole of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Indonesia;
• and the Russian Empire, uniting Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, all of Europe and Greenland.
• all states except the Russian Empire own a slice of Antarctica (I suppose that in exchange, Russia rules the North Pole all by itself).

That’s the thesis of Third Empire, a recently published futuristic novel by Mikhail Yuryev. In the book, Yuryev predicts that the Russian Empire will be re-created in a few decades’ time. This ‘Third Empire’ (I presume Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union were the first and second) will obliterate the three Baltic states in 2015 and defeat the USA in the nuclear exchange that many feared for most of the second half of the twentieth century but was thought unthinkable after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

Mikhail Yuryev is a Russian businessman, the former chairman of the Russian Government’s Council on Economy and Entrepreneurship (1993-1995) and formerly a deputy speaker of the State Duma (1995-1999). He is an ultranationalist, hoping to create a strong Russia which bases itself on Christian Orthodox values. Some quotes from an article by Yuryev, titled “Identifying Russia’s Foes” and published on 6 November 2004 in the Komsomolskaya Pravda, may elucidate his stance:

“Russia is a great state and must remain as such. This means that our existence as Russians inside Russia, not as nationals of a different country living in this country, however affluent and free it may be, is a value of the highest order.”

“Developing and consolidating the Russian nation and Orthodoxy, and fostering their interests, which in fact are one and the same thing, constitute the major goal for Russia. It has greater significance for us than the interests of other peoples, or religions in Russia.”

It may be small wonder, then, that a reader of the online edition of The Times of London – not coincidentally from one of the Baltic republics – on May 16, 2007 replied thus to an article about Russia’s Einzelgang in foreign policy matters:

“Just a couple of months ago, a former vice-chancellor of the Russian Duma Mikhail Yuryev published a best-selling novel “The Third Empire.” (…) The present advisor to president Putin, Alexander Dugin, states on the back-cover of the book: ‘This is Russia that one should kill and die for’. It is clear to anyone who lives near the border of this former bloody empire that we are dealing with the real sentiments and attempts at the resurrection of the ‘Third Russian Reich’ . So please don’t tell the Balts about forgetting ‘their historical garbage’. Putin’s Russia is a threat to all the democratic world.”
Posted by:Nimble Spemble

#8  NS - The Chinese get Australia because the Russians see the very large Chinese population in Australia as growing enormous by their high birthrates vs. lower birthrates for the other populations in OZ. Also, Chinese Government-owned businesses play no small role in the Aussie economy (they've actually cornered the market in some sectors of the wool production industry).

They're figuring the muzzies (green) will take over Indonesia, and as Steve says, they can have it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2007-09-23 22:22  

#7  The map will be even more fragmented than it is now. With many small wars going on. Of course, if China is still a functioning country, it will have Siberia.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-09-23 21:09  

#6  EDGAR CAYCE!
I haven't heard him mentioned in decades!
Not his life readings but his prophecies I assume!

So will Mu and Lemuria rise up out of the ocean too?

Maybe I should drive down to Geneva Rd & Main and visit the Theophysical society and read some Cayce rants...
hmmm...
Posted by: 3dc   2007-09-23 21:03  

#5  Must mean the Euopean Russia side - when the asteroid(s), PLanet(s) X [Russ scientists claim there's THREE], and Moon explodin' circa 2030, etal. knock the Earth off its orbit, and damagez-vous both America + China, whatever hurts the China side also hurts the Russ Central + Russ Far East. EDGAR CAYCE > [Euro?]Russia > "is the hope of the world". D *** NG IT, BUT YOUR BORSCH STOCKS NOW.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-23 20:54  

#4  Lot of useful raw materials there, especially mineral wealth.
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-23 20:07  

#3  You'd want Indonesia?
Posted by: Steve White   2007-09-23 19:02  

#2  Thanks, MR. My favorite part is how the Chinese manage to get Australia but not Indonesia.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-09-23 17:58  

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Posted by: Mullah Richard   2007-09-23 17:26  

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