Political analyst assessed the likelihood of the breakup of the United States

On Monday, January 27, american political scientist Alexander Asafov assessed the likelihood of the country's collapse against the background of the petition on California's withdrawal from the United States.

In a conversation with "Abzats," the political scientist expressed the opinion that the collapse of the United States is unlikely in general. According to him, many more people are now in favor of enlarging the country than dividing it, based on US President Donald Trump's recent statements and actions about Panama, Canada and Greenland and renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the American Gulf in the States.

"Yes, there is also Texas, which periodically declares secession. But those who want to leave the US are a minority," Asafov said.

He also noted that many Americans like Trump's ideas of expansive development of the US more than disintegration.

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Caliexit is gaining momentum in the US, the petition is officially registered, Pravda.Ru writes. So by analogy with Brexit - Britain's withdrawal from the European Union - is called the possible process of separation of California from the United States.

Earlier, on January 27, American political scientist Malek Dudakov told Izvestia that the initiative to secede California from the United States is a failure. There is no mechanism for such a process in the state constitution. In addition, the state's dependence on the federal center is high.

On the same day, political scientist-Americanist Rafael Ordukhanyan said that California's desire to secede from the U.S. is dictated by serious contradictions within the country. According to him, "since the division inside the U.S. is taking place in almost all spheres of life," 360.ru notes. He recalled that California is the fifth economy in the world.

Then the same political scientist and Americanist Dmitry Drobnitsky in a conversation with Life.ru expressed the opinion that while the referendum is far away, but the internal confrontation in the United States continues to grow. The political scientist believes that there will be no referendum in California in 2025, but the idea of its separation from the U.S. will be a certain lever of pressure on the White House.

Also on January 27, the initiator of another petition for the withdrawal of California from the United States Marcus Evans said that now the chances of success are much higher than when President Donald Trump first won the election in 2016. On Thursday, US Secretary of State Shirley Weber said that by the end of July she must collect more than 500,000 signatures to realize this initiative, RT writes.