Civilization End: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire | Jiang Xueqin

Americans want to feel virtuous. But as America becomes poorer and more desperate, this virtue will fade away, and the raw, brutal power of America will express itself throughout the world.

Jiang Xueqin, a Yale graduate with a B.A. in English Literature, is a Beijing-based former Deputy Principal at Tsinghua University High School, and education reformer. Today, he independently teaches anthropology, philosophy, history, and geopolitics to Beijing high school students and runs an English YouTube channel on "Predictive History," using historical patterns, game theory, and geopolitics to forecast global events.

This will eventually lead to the final conflict — the war between Iran and the United States. Iran has been preparing for this for a long time, and ever since 1979, America has been preparing too. This conflict will be World War III, and I cannot overstate how brutal this conflict will be. 

 

It will bring fundamental changes to the world, and our lives will never be the same again. Everything we have known in the past will be gone forever, and we must prepare for a new future. I know this is depressing. This last year we have gone into the heart of darkness of humanity, and the world looks more and more terrible. But remember this — and this is my final message to you: 

 

The greatest minds of humanity — Homer, Dante, Immanuel Kant — have all told us the same thing. They have all revealed one secret of the universe, one message: imagination is the animating force of the universe, and love is the unifying force of the universe.

What this means is this: in the darkest times, when all hope seems lost and there is only despair, any of us can rise up, stand up, and be the light to lead us forward. That is the task ahead of us if we are to save us. So remember this: we all have the capacity to imagine, and we all have the capacity to love. That is what makes us human. In the worst times, we must defend our own humanity.

Quoted from:
Jiang Xueqin (June 12, 2025) - Civilization End: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. (video) 

  

The Messianic Callings of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ali Khamenei:

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See also:
Jiang Xueqin (October 3, 2025) - America is an Anti-Civilization. (video)

The Chariot and Its Significance in World History | Oswald Spengler

The purpose of historical research is to depict the fate of human beings in a pictorial form, as far as it is manifested in deeds and personalities. We would know nothing of the Germanic migration period with its figures and battles if we were solely reliant on ground finds. Among these, however, one group is always overlooked or underestimated in its true historical significance: the weapons. They are closer to history than fragments and ornaments. They have been treated much too superficially by only considering their ornamentation or manufacturing technique. There is a lack of a psychology of weapons. Every weapon also speaks of the style of fighting and thus of the worldview of its bearers. In the invention, dissemination, or rejection of certain weapons, there is an ethos.

 

 

 

The bow, for example, is the first distance weapon that was instinctively rejected as unchivalrous by a group of European tribes. This includes, among others, the Romans, the Greeks of the mainland, and most Germanic tribes. In the depictions of the Ionian Odyssey saga on Corinthian and Attic vases, therefore, the bow, which is necessary to characterise the scene, is placed to the side, and Odysseus is given a sword, the weapon of combat man to man. [...] A new kind of man belongs to this weapon [the chariot]. The joy of risk and adventure, of personal bravery and chivalric ethos, becomes apparent. Master races arise that view war as the content of life and look down with pride and contempt on peasant peoples and cattle-breeding tribes. Here, in the second millennium, is expressed a mankind that was not there before. A new kind of soul is born. From then on, there is conscious heroism.

Quoted from:
Oswald Spengler (February 06, 1934) - The Chariot and Its Significance in the Course of World History. 

Lecture delivered at the Society of Friends of Asian Art and Culture in Munich, German Reich.