The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
WW3 Expert: This Could Trigger Global Starvation
07 May 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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In 2024, you made three predictions that have come perfectly true. Like Trump would start a war with Iran. And you've made a series of new predictions. Yes, and I'll explain each prediction one by one.
Okay, so first, I predict that Trump will get a third term. But isn't this constitutionally illegal? It's not. The president now has emergency war powers. And so he can actually delay the election. My second prediction is Iran is not a forever war and the United States will institute a national draft.
Meaning that if you're between 18 to 24 in America and you're male, you'll be automatically put into the draft system. And they just passed a law that says that starting December, you will be automatically registered.
Which means you're obliged to go and fight.
Exactly. Next, the world will move towards an AI surveillance state. So everything you do online is being recorded to figure out how to control you. And then this is the most controversial prediction. This is pretty bad. And I'll explain why. And also, I will tell you why this war can only lead to World War III. Why there's a very strong possibility that the American empire will collapse.
And also, I'll show you what the Russians will do and how the private bankers are controlling it.
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Chapter 2: What predictions did Professor Jiang make about Trump's presidency?
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Professor Dien, there's so much going on in the world at the moment that it's quite confusing for an ordinary person like me. And you've blown up across the internet because you've been able to demystify all of this craziness, but also because in 2024, you made three predictions that have come perfectly true. Some might say unfortunately. Unfortunately, yes. What were those three predictions?
My first prediction was that Trump would win in November 2024. Second prediction is that he would start a war against Iran. And the third prediction is that the United States would lose this war. And in losing this war, this would radically reshape the geopolitical landscape.
How did you know that Trump would start a war with Iran?
The simple answer is this. The United States have invaded Iran because it has no choice in the matter. If it were not to invade Iran, it would lose its empire. Its empire is based purely on the US dollar, the petrodollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it did not invade Iran, then people would choose not to trade with it anymore. People would choose to not buy U.S. treasuries. Why?
For the longest time, this system worked fine. But then in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Yeah. That was not the issue. The issue was the American response. The American response was to sanction Russia and remove Russia from the swift global payment system. It also ordered the Europeans to freeze over $200 billion in Russian assets. And this is a problem.
The very basis for having the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is that it would remain politically neutral. The Americans guaranteed seamless, politically neutral international exchange. So if this trend continues... If you don't do anything about Russia, Russia would take over Ukraine. And Russia then would build an alliance with China and Iran.
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Chapter 3: Why does Professor Jiang believe the US will lose the war with Iran?
All right, so aero supremacy, right?
Which is the planes and stuff like that.
Then you have the U.S. dollar. Because the US dollar allows you to finance everything and everyone wants the US dollar. So that is the second attack vector. The third attack vector is propaganda. The United States controls the world's most powerful media, including New York Times, CNN. And as such, they can control the narrative of the world. So these are the three major attack vectors.
Now they use the pawns. The pawns are weapons that they can sacrifice in order to achieve the grand strategy. And in the case of the United States, the pawn are the allies. Meaning, I hate to say this, but the UK, Europe, South Korea, and Japan. And also the entire Western Hemisphere. This is the Americans. The people who are most opposed to this grand strategy of Americans are the Russians.
So let's go over the Russian system. In the Russian system, the king, the political system, it's an autocracy. And an autocracy, it's good because it allows for coordination. It allows for decisiveness. It allows for resolve.
Long-term thinking.
Exactly, right? That's Putin. What's bad is if this guy dies, there's a secession crisis, right? So basically, once you topple the autocrat, then the system itself collapses. breaks down. So that's the Russian system. For the Russians, a great strategy is something called the Third Rome Strategy. The Third Rome Strategy? Yes.
So the people in Russia believe that they are the true successors to the Roman Empire. And previously, there were two Roms. There was the First Rome, then it moved to Constantinople, and Moscow is destined to be the Third Rome. And what makes Moscow different Interesting is that it wants to unite the entire Christian world under its leadership.
The main philosopher for the Third Rome Strategy is Alexander Dugin. In 1997, wrote a book called Foundation of Geopolitics. And what he said was this. What he said that if Russia is to defeat the Americans, it needs to build alliances throughout Eurasia in order to negate American sea power and Arab supremacy. All right? So what are the attack vectors for Russia?
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Chapter 4: How could the US invasion of Iran lead to World War III?
all this conflict between Israel and Palestine, a lot of this conflict is being supported politically in the United States by a group of people called Christian Zionists. And these are Christians. They're not Jews. They're Christians who believe that Israel should achieve the greater Israel project because this is part of God's plan.
And the pawns for the Israelis are basically everyone else, okay? So a lot of the hardware underpinning the global IT infrastructure is being controlled by the Israelis. So now we go to the fourth player in this great game, and that's Iran. So Iran, it is a theocracy. People are not afraid to die for what they believe in in Iran.
But the weakness is that it can alienate the majority of the population because only a minority are religious zealots in Iran. Most people just want to live a decent life. So they feel that these MOLAs, the IRGC are a threat to their peace and prosperity, then they might rise up against the Mullahs.
Which is what we've seen over the years, right?
Exactly. So this is the political system of the Iranians. Their grand strategy is to unite the Muslim world under leadership. They have three attack vectors, okay? The first attack vector are their proxies. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Another attack vector is is their asymmetrical warfare, meaning using drones and missiles to create as much economic damage as possible.
And the third attack vector is their geography or their topography. They are a fortress, so it's almost impossible to invade them. So that's their Shia militiamen, these religious zealots who are not afraid to die. Essentially, many of them could be suicide bombers. And so for them, this is a religious war. So now we're seeing how this entire battlefield unfolds across the world.
So I've mapped out the grand strategy of these different nation states who will be involved in World War III. Let's look at our present situation. So what we have so far is that the Russians are occupied with their army in Ukraine. This is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called the shuttle fleet.
And these are about 1,000 tankers that evade sanctions around the world. And this is essentially their navy. America is the most powerful military in the world. They have the most sophisticated air supremacy as well as control over the sea lanes. And it tries not to use infantry because that creates civilian casualties and that pisses everyone off in America. The Israelis...
are essentially a mercenary army aligned with the American empire, doing a bidding of the American empire. It's fighting against Lebanon as well as Iran. The Iranians, they don't have much of an air force, but they use a lot of drones to threaten. So this is where we are so far. According to the grand strategy,
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Chapter 5: What role do Russia and China play in the potential conflict?
You also want to control Greenland. You also want to control the state of Gibraltar. You can see the American Navy expanding outwards and occupying all these maritime choke points. At the same time, you want to use your technological supremacy, your aerial supremacy, your drones, to destroy the world's critical energy infrastructure.
Already we're seeing oil refineries being destroyed throughout the world. Oil refineries. Oil refineries, yes. So you, as America, you're trying to deplete the world's energy inventory so they're forced to beg you to supply energy, right? And once this market is created, then you can build infrastructure for Venezuela. You can take over Canada. You can control Mexico.
You can take over Greenland, okay? The Russians have no choice but to respond because if the Americans are controlling the strategic control points, your shadow fleet is rendered redundant, useless, right? So how do you ship your oil around the world? Well, you have two options. I'm just going to build railways to unite the Eurasian continent.
And I'll transport my oil using pipelines and railways. The problem with that is now that you're vulnerable to American aero supremacy, drone attacks. So you have no choice but to arm your shuttle fleet.
And now what's going to happen is this continent of oceans between Russian shuttle fleet tankers that are trying to transport oil around the world and these American destroyers who are trying to capture or destroy these shuttle tankers. Now, the advantage that... Russia has is that America doesn't have that much naval assets anymore. It used to, but not anymore.
The other thing is that the world really needs energy. So you can imagine China financing the militarization of the Russian shuttle fleet.
Why would, sir, why would the US try and stop Russian boats?
Because in this global outlook, There are two nations that could provide weapons and resources to the rest of the world. They are Russia and they are America. So if America has become dominant, it needs to blockade Russia. And when you do that is by seizing their shuttle fleet. But if that happened, that would be an act of war. But it's already happening. What, really?
Yes, it's already happening. Where? Iranian tankers have been seized by the Americans. And tankers are being seized in the Caribbean as well by the American Navy. Whose tankers? I believe they are Russian tankers.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's potential third term?
And there are certain things that are illegal. Trump getting a third term is not illegal. So let me explain the loophole. What Trump could do is this. There are two possibilities. The first possibility is in 2028, he has his son, Don Jr., run as a president and he runs as the vice president. And then when Don Jr. wins, if he wins, then Don Jr. could abdicate and Trump would be the president.
And in the Constitution, if you read the Constitution very carefully, it doesn't actually prohibit people from doing that. It's not been done in the past. And like no sane person with any morality would do this. But that doesn't stop Trump from doing this, okay? That's one possibility. Another possibility is that by 2028, America is at war with everyone. There's a national draft.
the president now has emergency war powers. And so he can actually suspend the constitution and delay the election, which is what Zelensky did in Ukraine. So these are two different possibilities. But I think that given Trump's track record, given his personality, I think he very much wants a third term. And I think that he will do everything possible to get a third term.
He would turn 83 years old in the same year that he finishes his second turn.
This is a man who eats McDonald's hamburgers every day. He doesn't really work out. Yet, on the campaign trail, he's able to go to two rallies a day. And in each rally, just 50,000 people. And he will talk on and on and on.
Then at night, when he should be sleeping, he's either on social, tweeting about the world, or he's calling up reporters and telling him or her some confidential information that he really shouldn't be discussing with the media.
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Chapter 7: How could a national draft impact American society?
This is a man who is addicted to attention. This is a man who loves the spotlight. He's lived all his life in the spotlight. For him, death is to be ignored. So given his personality, he would rather die in office than live peacefully outside. somewhere else.
And of those two strategies that you named, where he puts his son in and then becomes president that way, or there's a war breaks out, so he says he has to stay in office. Of those two strategies, which one do you think he's more likely to deploy?
I actually think that given his narcissism, he would prefer the first strategy.
His putting his son in?
Because that shows himself in the world that America loves him.
Okay. And it could also be J.D. Vance or someone else, right? It doesn't have to be his son necessarily.
Trump does not trust anyone. Trump has never had a part of J. In fact, everyone that's really worked for Trump has been kind of screwed over by him.
Do you not think that if his son decided to run and then announced that the vice president was his dad, do you not think that there would be such a huge backlash in the United States that his son wouldn't win?
Well, I think there's a possibility that they figure out how to cheat in 2028. Oh, as in actually cheat the election?
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for the American empire?
Right. At the poll booth. Right. So let's go into Trump's mind. All right. His psychology. In his mind, he won in 2020. The people voted for him. But the Democrats stole the election with mail-in ballots and by rigging the election machines. In his mind, he literally believes that.
So in his mind, he believes that this is actually his third term, and the people and the government, they owe him a second term, which is what he wants now. He wants... compensation for having the election stolen from him in 2020.
I find it really implausible to think that Trump would run for a third term.
So again, this is a prediction. And it is a test of the validity of my theoretical framework.
I was looking at some of the constitutions and the laws, and it says that the 22nd Amendment explicitly states no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Some theorists have tried to argue that since the amendment says elected, a person might be able to serve a third term if they were appointed or succeeded to the role, e.g. by being vice president first.
Legal scholars and the judicial community almost universally reject this. The 12th Amendment requires that anyone serving as vice president must be eligible to be president. Since a two-term president is ineligible to be elected again, they are legally barred from being vice president.
So the point is, there's nothing explicit in the Constitution that bars someone from having a third term. And there's debate in the legal community about about the spirit of the 22nd Amendment. It would go to the Supreme Court, right? And the Supreme Court is controlled right now by the conservatives.
Trump appointed three of the nine justices, and there's a possibility he gets a fourth later in the year. So it's entirely up to the Supreme Court whether or not he can run. And again, there's something explicit in the Constitution that forbids him from running as a vice president.
Okay. What's your next prediction?
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