Jiang Xueqin, history professor and geopolitics expert who predicted the Iran war: “The Iranians have been preparing for 20 years”

“The reality is that, right now, it’s a war of attrition between the United States and Iran,” says Jiang Xueqin, a history professor and geopolitical analyst who back in May 2024 made three striking predictions: Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. elections, the outbreak of war involving Iran, and the defeat of the United States in the land once known as ancient Persia and “that will forever change the global order.” These three forecasts have surprised observers around the world.

“Iranians have been preparing 20 years for this conflict,” he adds. “Now they have a pretty good strategy for how to weaken and ultimately destroy the American empire. So what the Iranians are doing is… they’re waging war against the entire global economy,” the professor said on the program Breaking Points.

“So they are striking the GCC countries (Gulf Cooperation Council). Not only are they striking GGC countries, American bases, they’re going after the critical energy infrastructure,” Xueqin explains. “They’ve blocked off the Strait of Hormuz, and eventually, they will go after water desalination plants, which is the lifeline of these nations because they don’t have freshwater supply.”

“The Iranians are actually threatening the very existence of Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain, Qatar. And why this is important is that the Gulf States are really the linchpin of the American economy.”

“So what they do is sell petrodollars and then they recycle the petrodollars back into the American economy through the investments in the stock market,” Xueqin said. “And right now, we now know that the entire American economy is propped up by A.I. investments in data centers. And a lot of that comes from the Gulf States.”

“So if the Gulf States are no longer able to sell oil and they are no long able to finance A.I., this A.I. bubble in the United States, then this A.I. bubble will burst,” he explained. “And when it bursts as well the entire American economy, which is really a financial Ponzi scheme.”

The professor also insists that “the United States military is not designed to fight a 21st century war. Remember that the military industrial complex came into being after World War II and was designed to fight the Cold War.

“That is what the American air defense system is basically. And that’s why we’re seeing this asymmetry,” Xueqin pointed out. “Where you have these million-dollar missiles trying to take out these $50,000 drones and it’s not sustainable in the long term.”

“What we are seeing really is the puncturing of the aura of the invincibility and enviability that sustained American hegemony for the past twenty years,” the expert concludes.

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