This is quite an interesting read, and possibly closer to what's going on than any conventional theories.
The planet's immediate future — predicted, mapped, and voted on — based on the forecasts of a Beijing high school teacher who mysteriously keeps being right
Jan Wellmann
Mar 23, 2026
Is Professor Jiang a prophet, a CCP messenger who got handed the playbook, or the most cosmically lucky bullshit artist alive? Read his eschatological roadmap for how the current world order ends in the next two to four years — six predictions already confirmed, thirteen more in the queue — then vote on each domino at SimulationTerminal. The loading screen is gone. The simulation is live.
The Man Nobody Had Heard Of
Nobody had heard of Jiang Xueqin eighteen months ago. He was a high school history teacher in Beijing, recording lectures on a whiteboard for teenagers who probably wanted to be somewhere else. Then the war started, and suddenly this man — BA in English literature, not a professor by any institutional definition of the word, expelled from China in 2002 for inconvenient journalism and somehow let back in without explanation — was on Tucker Carlson, on Breaking Points, in every algorithm simultaneously, two million subscribers materialized from nowhere, dubbed “China’s Nostradamus” by a media apparatus that didn’t stop to ask who let him back through the gate.
He called Trump’s return. He called the Iran war. He called JD Vance as running mate in May 2024, months before the announcement. He predicted the exact rhetorical framing Trump would use to justify the war, word for word, a year before Trump said it on television. Whether Jiang is an independent theorist who reads history better than everyone else, or a very well-positioned messenger delivering a script to a Western audience primed to receive it, remains the most interesting question nobody in his comment section is asking. Both options are on the table. Neither is comforting.
What he’s describing now is bigger than the Iran war, and it has a name.
The Framework: Where Every Prophecy Agrees
The Law of Eschatological Convergence is Jiang’s framework for understanding why geopolitically insane decisions keep getting made by people who are not, by conventional measure, stupid. The theory is this: take every major religious tradition’s end-times prophecy, find the points where they agree, and you’ve found the coordinates that true believers with money and missiles are actually working toward. Not because God ordained it. Because they believe God ordained it — and in geopolitics, sincere belief backed by a nuclear arsenal has a way of manufacturing its own confirmation.
The religions involved are not fringe. They are the operating systems of the people currently running the world.
Christian Zionism — the American evangelical movement that counts tens of millions of voters and significant congressional representation — holds that Israel must control the biblical territories, the Third Temple must be built on the Temple Mount, a world war must occur involving Israel, and then Christ returns. This is not metaphor for these people. This is a foreign policy platform. John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, has spent decades lobbying Washington on exactly this basis, with the kind of access that makes career diplomats nervous. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State under Trump’s first term, gave an interview suggesting he believes we may be living in the Book of Esther. He was not speaking hypothetically.
Jewish Messianism — in its most extreme settler form — holds that the Third Temple cannot be built while the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands on the Temple Mount, that Greater Israel — from the Nile to the Euphrates, taking in chunks of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq — is a divine promise rather than a political aspiration, and that its fulfillment will trigger the Messianic era. Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s current National Security Minister, has visited the Temple Mount over two hundred times to assert Jewish sovereignty. He has been photographed with a portrait of Baruch Goldstein — who massacred twenty-nine Muslims at prayer in 1994 — hanging on his living room wall. He is not a fringe figure. He is in the cabinet.
Russian Orthodox Eschatology holds that Moscow is the Third Rome — the final protector of true Christianity after the fall of Constantinople — and that Russia has a divine mandate to reunite the Orthodox world, return Constantinople to Christian rule, and destroy the Western liberal order that corrupted the first two Romes. Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has publicly framed the war in Ukraine as a metaphysical struggle against the godless West. Putin has met with Kirill throughout the war for what the Kremlin describes as spiritual counsel. This is not separation of church and state. This is church and state operating as one organism with tanks.
Shia Islamic Eschatology — the tradition that governs Iranian strategic theology — anticipates the return of the Hidden Imam preceded by a period of great war, the rise of Persia as a dominant force, and a final confrontation with the forces of falsehood — which map, in the current moment, onto Israel and its American sponsor with a precision that the ayatollahs find encouraging. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commanders have described the current conflict in explicitly theological terms. This is not rhetoric for domestic consumption. This is the actual decision-making framework.
The convergence point — the coordinate where all four traditions arrive simultaneously — is a major war centered on Jerusalem, the destruction or desecration of the Temple Mount, the defeat of American power, the rise of a Persian civilizational force, the collapse of the current world order, and the installation of a new global governance architecture.
That list is also a fairly accurate description of Jiang’s geopolitical forecast for the next two to four years.
After reading the predicted cascade, decide for yourself what’s the most likely outcome with the
Jiang Simulation Game.
The Cascade: How the Dominoes Fall
Here is how the dominoes fall, according to Jiang.
The US loses the air war economically before it loses it militarily — four million dollars to intercept a twenty-thousand-dollar drone, indefinitely, while Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf states discover that a desert kingdom without functioning logistics is just a very expensive sandbox. The GCC — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the whole gilded apparatus of petrodollar civilization — begins to crack. This is not a side effect. The petrodollar is the mechanism by which the US runs a thirty-nine trillion dollar debt without consequence, recycling Gulf oil revenues back through American financial markets. When the Gulf goes, the dollar’s structural support goes with it. America’s economy is, in Jiang’s precise phrasing, a Ponzi scheme that requires foreign nations to keep buying in. Iran closing the Strait is the moment someone at the back of the room stops buying.
Ground troops go in, because the air war can’t finish it, and ground troops mean a draft, and the draft is the device that turns a foreign policy disaster into a domestic one. American kids raised on the therapeutic assumption that their feelings constitute a political position receive a letter that explains otherwise. They refuse. The National Guard deploys against its own citizens. The streets look like 1968 filmed vertically on a phone, and the country begins eating itself in a way that makes coherent military command nearly impossible. Civil conflict doesn’t require a single dramatic moment. It just requires enough accumulated grievance and enough National Guardsmen on enough corners until the social contract dissolves like a paper bag in the rain.
While America is busy with that, Turkey and Saudi Arabia enter the war, because the script requires regional opposition to be bled out in uniform before the next act. They enter. They suffer. The GCC economies finish collapsing. The geometry is now prepared for Greater Israel — the biblical territory from the Nile to the Euphrates — because you cannot absorb what still has a functioning government with enough money to object. The economic destruction of the Arab world is the prerequisite, not the consequence.
Then the mosque comes down. The Al-Aqsa Mosque, third holiest site in Islam, standing on the Temple Mount since the seventh century, comes down through whatever combination of military necessity and divine convenience the moment provides — and this is the trigger that makes everything else look like prologue. Two billion Muslims are now not politically motivated but religiously obligated to respond. Every imam on earth has just received a mobilization order with cosmic authority attached. The war, which was already catastrophically regional, becomes something the current vocabulary of international relations has no word for.
Here is the twist that makes Jiang’s framework genuinely strange: Iran is supposed to win. A victorious Iran rising from the rubble reassembles its pre-Islamic Persian identity — the ancient empire, Cyrus and Darius and the civilizational ego that predates every caliphate — and becomes, right on schedule, right on prophecy, Gog. Russia, having completed the project in Ukraine, dismantled NATO’s eastern flank, returned Constantinople to Greek Orthodox control with the kind of move that hasn’t happened since 1453, and fulfilled the Third Rome prophecy, becomes Magog. Together they march against Israel, which is precisely what the most devout Israeli eschatologists require to happen before the Messiah can arrive. You cannot stage the final act without a credible enemy. They have been casting this role across three millennia of competing scripture.
The European Collapse and the Chinese Miscalculation
Meanwhile Europe, deprived of cheap Russian energy since 2022, financially hemorrhaging from military commitments it can’t sustain, and now watching the Strait of Hormuz close off the oil that feeds its remaining industrial base, enters a state of managed collapse. NATO fractures. The European project — already straining under the weight of two decades of elite overreach and working-class resentment — loses its structural justification and becomes an administrative body governing a territory that no longer believes in it. The energy crash is not dramatic. It is the kind of slow grinding poverty that radicalizes populations who had assumed prosperity was a permanent condition.
China, in this endgame, does not win. It survives, recalculating. It imports three quarters of its oil from overseas, forty percent from the GCC alone. The war it wanted to avoid destroys the trade architecture that built its prosperity. The Belt and Road networks through Iran and the Gulf — the infrastructure China spent decades building as the skeleton of an alternative world order — are severed or destabilized. China ends up at the negotiating table, not at the head of it, trying to salvage a multilateral framework from the wreckage of one that served it well enough. The yuan does not replace the dollar in any clean transition.
What replaces the dollar is chaos, and then something new being assembled in real time by people who have very specific ideas about what it should look like.
The Endgame: Pax Judaica and the Mark
That something new is what Jiang, without much elaboration, gestures at as Pax Judaica — and what the rest of the world’s marketing departments are calling the digital transition, the new financial architecture, the post-cash economy, the integrated identity infrastructure. Whatever it is called, its functional description is consistent across every jurisdiction currently piloting it: a system in which participation in the economy requires a verified digital identity, transactions are visible and programmable, and access can be revoked. The Book of Revelation called this the mark of the beast in the first century AD. The World Economic Forum calls it financial inclusion. The difference is mainly branding.
Here is where it stops being abstract and starts being a schedule.
In September 2024, 193 UN member states signed the Pact for the Future, committing — non-bindingly, they always say non-bindingly — to rolling out Digital Public Infrastructure globally by 2030. DPI is a three-part civic stack: digital identity, programmable payment systems, and mass data exchange between public and private entities. SDG Target 16.9 of Agenda 2030 mandates legal identity for every human being on the planet by that date, with digital IDs linked to bank accounts as the explicit delivery mechanism.
The EU moved first with binding law. Regulation 2024/1183 mandates that every EU member state provide citizens with a digital identity wallet by end of 2026. By December 31 2026, all public institutions must accept them. By November 2027, all private sector businesses must follow. The UK announced its own national digital ID scheme in September 2025 — a petition against it gathered 2.9 million signatures, one of the largest in British parliamentary history. The government softened the mandatory language in January 2026 but the scheme rolls out by 2029 regardless. Tony Blair, funded in part by the Gates Foundation, has been publicly arguing that British people will sacrifice privacy for efficiency. He may be right.
The European Central Bank completed its digital euro preparation phase in October 2025. The European Parliament votes on the regulation in June 2026. If it passes, pilot transactions begin mid-2027, with full digital euro issuance targeted for 2029. The ECB insists it will not replace cash. The ECB also controls the timeline on which cash becomes practically unusable.
On carbon: the EU’s Emissions Trading System 2 launches in 2027, extending carbon pricing directly to household energy and road transport for the first time. An Alibaba executive demonstrated a personal carbon footprint tracker at Davos in 2022. A professor of banking economics told a European Parliament panel in March 2026 that CBDC programmability means your money could be frozen for exceeding a carbon quota, stepping outside a fifteen-minute city, or holding the wrong opinion about the current war. He was not speculating. He was reading from the technical specifications.
The sequence doesn’t need prediction. It is published — UN resolution, EU regulation, national legislation, central bank announcement, timeline, pilot, issuance. Each step documented, dated, and proceeding on schedule. Entirely independently, the architects will tell you, of any eschatological framework or prophecy written in a desert three thousand years ago by people who had never heard of a central bank digital currency and yet somehow described one with uncomfortable precision.
What’s Actually Happening?
Trump’s justification for the Iran war matched Jiang’s predicted script verbatim — written down a year before Trump said it on live television. The Strait of Hormuz closed exactly as predicted. The GCC economies are bleeding exactly as predicted. The US is now debating ground troop deployment, which Jiang identified as the trigger that turns a foreign policy disaster into a domestic one. Europe is rationing energy conversations it thought it had moved past. Ben Gvir is in the cabinet and has been to the Temple Mount two hundred times. Kirill is blessing tanks. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is using explicitly theological framing in operational communications.
That is six confirmed or visibly in-motion predictions from a man who is not a professor, who was expelled from China for inconvenient journalism and somehow got let back in, who appeared from nowhere with a fully formed framework at precisely the moment the framework became relevant. Six out of six so far. Not approximately right — specifically, uncomfortably, word-for-word right.
Whether Jiang is part of a predictive programming operation, an exceptionally well-positioned historian, or the luckiest bullshit artist in recorded history is your call. What is no longer a reasonable position is dismissing the remaining predictions simply because they sound insane.
The simulation is live. And we might as well have fun predicting where it goes next.
