New Nostradamus makes chilling prediction over Iran struggle that may terrify Donald Trump

Xueqin Jiang, known as “China’s Nostradamus”, has predicted that Iran will defeat the United States in the ongoing conflict, warning it will forever change the global order

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The standoff between the US and Iran is threatening to spiral into a broader conflict, with Iranian drones and missiles pounding targets throughout the Middle East – and one drone allegedly striking an airport in Azerbaijan. US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that Iran’s retaliation for the joint US-Israeli strikes, which commenced on February 28, might even encompass attacks on US soil.

He told Time magazine: “We think about it all the time. We plan for it. 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 alarming for the world.

Xueqin Jiang, the academic and researcher dubbed “China’s Nostradamus”, has forecast that the US is destined to lose its war with Iran. Jiang, who employs methods such as game theory and comprehensive analysis of historical political patterns to forecast future developments, has already delivered a string of eerily precise world predictions.

In one widely circulated video uploaded to his Predictive History YouTube channel in 2024, Jiang stated that Trump would reclaim the White House following the 2025 elections and that he would almost inevitably strike Iran shortly after regaining power. Yet he also delivered a third forecast in that presentation – that Iran would proceed to vanquish America, reports the Mirror.

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 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 outlining his alarming forecasts, Jiang suggests that Iranian forces are far better equipped for this confrontation than their American adversaries.

He said: “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.

“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.” Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, the former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has already cautioned that Iran’s missile assaults could overwhelm America’s defences.

Speaking to The Times, he outlined that much of Iran’s offensive capability relied on a vast number of relatively inexpensive Shahed drones, whilst the Patriot missile batteries protecting US interests throughout the Middle East were fewer in number and considerably more costly. He stated: “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.”

He added: “There is also an economic disparity between shooting down a $20,000 (£15,800) Shahed drone with a $4 million (£3.16 million) missile. You start to run out very quickly – and you’ll run out of those Patriots probably before Iran runs out of Shaheds.”

Recent revelations indicate that General Dan Caine, the head of the US military and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, privately cautioned the president about a severe shortage of defensive missiles just prior to the initial strikes being launched, informing Trump that this lack of defensive capability could significantly heighten the risk to American personnel. Trump has dismissed any notion that the US might be under-equipped, maintaining that American forces possess “unlimited mid to upper tier weaponry”.

He further commented: “The United States munitions stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better.” However, Jiang suggests that, through its affiliation with paramilitary groups across the Middle East, Iran has been discreetly plotting America’s downfall for decades.

He said: “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 prove as much economic as military, Jiang suggests.

He outlines that Iranian missile attacks have predominantly targeted crucial infrastructure belonging to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations – a coalition of Middle Eastern countries aligned with Western interests. Whilst Iran’s attention has currently centred on US military installations across the region, there are two broader and more perilous goals: firstly, to trigger a massive economic downturn in the West by threatening maritime traffic through the Straits of Hormuz; and secondly, to cripple the GCC nations by depriving them of fresh water.

“Eventually they will go after the water desalination plants,” Jiang explains. “They are the lifeblood of these nations, because they don’t have fresh water supply.

“In fact the water desalination plants provides 60% of the GCC’s water supply.” Highlighting that Iranian drones are relatively inexpensive at approximately $50,000 (£39,500), he noted that just one drone would need to penetrate Saudi Arabia’s missile defence to create widespread alarm.

He said: “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.”

Through blocking the Straits of Hormuz, Iran could also starve America’s regional allies, given that GCC countries import roughly 90% of their food supplies. He explained: “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 breakdown of worldwide oil commerce, the unavoidable economic meltdown would also devastate the AI data centres upon which America has grown progressively dependent.

He said: “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.”

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