There is this Chinese whizz-kid, Jiang Xueqin. Actually, he is neither a kid nor Chinese. According to the linked Wikipedia article, he is about 50, and probably Canadian. But he certainly is more than usually brainy.
Glenn Diesen has interviewed him on a couple of occasions and I note that what he says differs in almost every way from what just about everybody else says, both in form, style and content.
For one thing, he is anything but diffident. He seems almost insolently confident about his predictions. Yes, he is in the business of making geopolitical predictions. And he does so – to be sure – on the basis knowledge and, allegedly, game theory. (To my knowledge, game theory has absolutely nothing to do with gaming.)
Online with Glenn Diesen, he is unsmiling and very concentrated. He serves his apocalyptic predictions with chilling cool, although he concedes from time to time that they sound terribly cynical, inferring that the cynicism is not his, but that of the people who run the world.
They, the people who run the world, pretend they are not Netanyahus, but that is exactly what they are. (Take for instance Keir Starmer, a so-called “Labour” PM, who has turned the UK into a Zionist police state).
I shook my head, as he told Glenn Diesen how the US will bamboozle even the Chinese, and will crack the Iranians if not in the strait of Hormuz, at least in the strait of Malacca. It is true that Trump gleefully bragged, just the other day, that “we’re like pirates”. So, yes, the US can and will do exactly what they want to do with any ship, anywhere.
I also shook my head when he explained that this war, these wars, I should say, is not about China but between the US and Russia. Then I remembered that until Trump claimed he wanted the Ukraine war to end, we always maintained that the Ukraine war was a proxy war, that Ukraine was a US proxy. (And just today I read that Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed the existence of more than 40 gain-of-function bio-labs in Ukraine paid for by US tax payers.) The US has now merely outsourced its Ukraine war to its European vassals. Indeed, Jiang Xueqin’s explanation of how and why the US outsources its wars is exhilarating.
I decided to take a look at his website, and having done so I urge you to do likewise.
This picture from Iran on his site is not one I have seen before:
He writes:
Trump ordered the destruction of Iran’s largest bridge. This is considered a war crime because you’re not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can make the argument that this is dual-use, meaning that the military uses it as well, but everything is dual-use. The military also uses water, they also use electricity, and their kids also go to university. So, there’s a great fear now that we are already at the point of no return.”
Makes sense.
But I am writing all this only to tell you that this insolently self-confident thinker has produced a treasure trove of a web-site, full of information and mind-boggling theories.
I know for a fact that I do not agree with him about Dante’s Divina Comedia, for example, and a number of other issues. But disagreeing with intelligently developed points of view is stimulating. In a piece about economic bubbles (“The Great Reset”), he writes “How do economies rise and fall? I’m not an expert or a professor. I engage in speculation for fun and entertainment. See this as an exploration of some topics that have no scholarly basis.”
Take a look at his long essay (for lack of a better word) “The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex”, or his impressive Glossary, or his “Mid-Term Examination” starting with the sentence “Today is our midterm examination—a chance for you to question and examine me”. Again, he is in the business of making geopolitical predictions based on a combination of facts, reasoning and adventurism. Game theory is not about gaming, but his predictions are, in a sense, a game.
My approach to analyses of current events is to seek, not confirmation, but understanding. I admittedly want to see an end to US hegemony and I tend to be happy reading promises of the imminent demise of USD reserve currency status. This whizz kid and his Predictive History site is not promising anything of the sort. Yet, he is well worth my time and I therefore suggest he might be worth yours as well. After all, do we not need to understand why rogue states such as the US and Israel are still calling the shots and why US piracy is being tolerated?