Professor Jiang on The Diary Of A CEO

Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain!

This one is a long sit-down from The Diary Of A CEO, and it is a heavy one. Professor Jiang lays out a string of predictions about where he thinks the world is headed, and he does not soften any of it.

He opens by pointing back to 2024, when he says he called a few things that ended up happening, including the US moving toward conflict with Iran. Then he rolls into the new ones.

First prediction: Trump serves a third term. Jiang's argument is that the 22nd Amendment only says a president cannot be elected more than twice, so he thinks there is a legal gray area that could end up in front of the Supreme Court. Most legal scholars reject that reading, and the host pushes back hard, but Jiang stands on it.

Second: war with Iran kicks off and the US brings back a national draft. He claims men 18 to 24 would be auto-registered, and he ties the whole thing to emergency war powers.

Third: the world slides into what he calls an AI civilian state, where basically everything you do online gets logged and used to keep people in line.

The big one, and the reason for the title, is that he puts an 80 to 90 percent probability on this leading to World War 3. His framing is wild. He uses a chess set to explain how each country sees itself, and his core idea is that you do not beat the United States by invading it, you beat it by pushing it into a civil war from the inside.

He closes on the idea that the American empire is already collapsing, and compares this moment to the Bronze Age collapse over 3,000 years ago, when a stack of crises hit all at once and a bunch of established kingdoms fell one after another.

Agree with him or not, it is a lot to chew on. Watch the full thing above and make up your own mind.

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