The Man Who Predicted The Iran War: The Next 9/11 Will Target Your Bank Account! | Professor Jiang

Professor Jiang Xueqin argues that the global order is entering a breakdown phase because the systems that enabled modern technology and prosperity are weakening at the same time. He ties technological progress to “specialization times globalization,” then says war, sanctions, and supply-chain fragmentation will push countries to become more self-sufficient, less specialized, and less innovative. In his view, the U.S. dollar system, U.S. military dominance, and the petrostate trade network have been the hidden foundations of global stability, and those foundations are now eroding.

He uses semiconductor production as the clearest example of interdependence: chips depend on materials, design, machinery, and assembly spread across China, the U.S., Taiwan, Japan, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. He then extends the argument into food, fertilizer, water scarcity, and migration, saying the next flashpoints will come from resource stress in the Middle East, South Asia, and the western U.S. He says aging societies in Europe and North America will be unable to avoid immigration pressures, which could lead to political violence, civil conflict, and even revolution.

Jiang’s three headline predictions are that a future 9/11-style attack would target U.S. financial infrastructure, that Donald Trump could somehow remain in power beyond 2028 and trigger a siege of New York City, and that Lionel Messi could become president of Argentina. His broader claim is that empires in decline do not yield gracefully, and that the next phase of conflict will be defined by disruption to trade, finance, and data rather than conventional battlefield attacks.