Chinese educator Xueqin Jiang predicted a Trump-led US invasion of Iran over a year ago (Image: YouTube/PredictiveHistory)
The war between the United States and Iran is threatening to spiral into a wider conflict, with Iranian drones and missiles pounding targets throughout the Middle East, and one drone reportedly striking an airport in Azerbaijan. American president Donald Trump has acknowledged that Iran’s retaliation for the joint US-Israeli strikes, which commenced on February 28, could potentially include attacks on American soil: « We think about it all the time. We plan for it, » he told Time magazine. « We expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die. »
However, there could be even more worrying news for Americans. Xueqin Jiang, the academic and researcher who has been described as « China’s Nostradamus, » has forecast that the US is destined to be defeated in its war with Iran. Jiang, who employs methods including game theory and meticulous analysis of historical political patterns to forecast future developments, has already made a succession of remarkably accurate world predictions.
Trump’s re-election was just one of Jiang’s amazingly-accurate predictions (Image: Getty Images)
In one widely circulated video uploaded to his Predictive History YouTube channel in 2024, Jiang stated that Trump would return to the White House following the 2025 elections and that he would almost inevitably strike Iran shortly after reclaiming the presidency. Yet he also made a third forecast in that lecture – that Iran would ultimately triumph over America.
In the 2024 lecture, Jiang told his students: « In this class this semester, I’m making three big predictions. First is that Trump will win in November. Second is that the United States will go to war against Iran. And the third big prediction is that the United States will lose this war – which will forever change the global order. »
In a fresh interview elaborating on his disturbing forecasts, Jiang suggests that Iranian forces are considerably better equipped for this confrontation than their American counterparts: « Given my analysis of how the war is progressing, I think that Iran has many more advantages over the United States. The reality is, right now, it’s a war of attrition between the United States and Iran, and Iranians have been preparing 20 years for this conflict, » he said.
« They’ve had many practice runs. Last June was a 12-day war when the Iranians were able to examine and analyse the strike capacities of both the Israelis and the Americans. And they have had a lot of time – eight months – to prepare fully for this new attack, » Jiang further said.
The US is raining destruction on Iran, but Jiang says Iranians are well-prepared (Image: Parspix/ABACA/Shutterstock)
Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, the former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has already cautioned that Iran’s missile assaults could overpower America’s defences. Speaking to The Times, he outlined that much of Iran’s offensive capability relied on vast numbers of relatively inexpensive Shahed drones, while the Patriot missile batteries protecting US interests throughout the Middle East were less plentiful and considerably more costly.
Winnefeld added: « Do we have enough of those in a race against Iran’s inventory of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles? Who runs out first? It’s a race against time. There is also an economic disparity between shooting down a $20,000 Shahed drone with a $4 million missile. You start to run out very quickly – and you’ll run out of those Patriots probably before Iran runs out of Shaheds. »
It has also recently come to light that General Dan Caine, the head of the US military and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, privately cautioned the president about a critical shortage of defensive missiles just before the initial strikes were launched, informing Trump that this deficiency in defensive capability could substantially heighten the risk to American personnel.
Trump has dismissed any notion that the US might be under-resourced, maintaining that American forces have « unlimited mid to upper tier weaponry. » He insisted: « The United States munitions stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better. »
The US Patriot missile system is accurate – but expensive (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
However, Jiang argues that, through its connections with paramilitary groups across the Middle East, Iran has discreetly been orchestrating America’s downfall for decades: « Through their proxies, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Shia militias, Iran has been able to grasp the American mentality and now they have a pretty good strategy of how to weaken and ultimately destroy the American empire. »
The defeat will be as much economic as military, Jiang suggests. He outlines that Iranian missile strikes have predominantly been directed at the critical infrastructure of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations – a collective of Middle Eastern countries aligned with Western interests.
While, at present, Iran’s attention has been on US military bases in the region, there are two broader and more perilous objectives: firstly, to trigger a massive economic recession in the West by threatening shipping through the Straits of Hormuz; and secondly, to bring the GCC nations to their knees by depriving them of fresh water.
« Eventually they will go after the water desalination plants, » Jiang says. « They are the lifeblood of these nations, because they don’t have a fresh water supply. In fact, the water desalination plants provide 60% of the GCC’s water supply. »
The entire region has erupted in the wake of the joint US-Israeli attacks on February 28 (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Highlighting that Iranian drones are relatively inexpensive at around $50,000, he noted that only one drone would need to penetrate Saudi Arabia’s missile shield to trigger widespread panic: « If they wiped out a desalination plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – it’s a city of 10 million people. They’d be out of water in two weeks. »
By sealing off the Straits of Hormuz, Iran could also deprive America’s allies in the region, because the GCC countries import approximately 90% of their food. « Right now the Iranians are threatening the very existence of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar. Why that is important is because the Gulf states are really the linchpin of the American economy. »
With the collapse of the global oil trade, the inevitable financial crash would also cripple the AI data centres on which America has become increasingly reliant: « If the Gulf states are no longer able to sell oil and they’re no longer able to finance this AI bubble in the United States, then this AI bubble will burst, and with it the entire American economy. »
« That’s the dire situation that Americans are facing right now. »
Iranian Shahed drones can be produces in vast numbers for comparatively little cost (Image: AP)
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