A political analyst from Russia says that "The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse." Igor Panarin also added that the U.S. economy "is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale." Panarin also predicts that the United States will break up into 6 smaller countries and that Russia and China will emerge as the world's great powers, both economically and militarily.