When Eschatologies Converge: Geopolitical Predictions for the Next 10-20 Years

This podcast episode, "Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge," argues that eschatology, or the study of end times, is the primary driver of geopolitics. The host, Professor Jang, begins by contextualizing modern conflict as 99% unseen hybrid warfare, encompassing informational, cyber, psychological, and economic sabotage. He details the US and Israeli strategy against Iran, focusing on economic sanctions and infrastructure sabotage (specifically water supply in Tehran) to decrease regime legitimacy and trigger a succession crisis. Ironically, this strategy is predicted to increase Iranian resolve, potentially leading to a ground invasion by the US, which the professor believes would result in an American military defeat.

The core of the argument rests on understanding why eschatologies are so compelling: they provide narratives that answer fundamental human questions (origin, purpose, destiny), act as self-fulfilling scripts, and facilitate "unconscious coordination" among believers. This coordination, unlike overt conspiracies, allows for secrecy, deniability, and frictionless cooperation, making eschatologies powerful tools for achieving collective goals, including material wealth and power. The professor outlines six major eschatological traditions—Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian Zionist, Islamic, Orthodox, and Catholic—emphasizing their extreme, literal interpretations and how they dynamically adapt by incorporating elements from each other. He highlights Alexander Dugin's Eurasianist plan for Russia (Moscow as the Third Rome, Putin as the 'Catacon') and the Catholic Church's suspected long-term strategy to reassert global dominance by dismantling the Anglo-American Empire, the nation-state, and modernity itself.

The episode then identifies several critical convergence points among these diverse eschatologies, painting a grim picture of the future. These include a major global conflict originating in the Middle East (World War III), the non-involvement of the United States (due to a failed Iran invasion or civil war) and China (due to ecological catastrophe), the emergence of a charismatic Antichrist figure, Israel becoming a dominant Middle Eastern power, the destruction of the Dome of the Rock to build the Third Temple, and a global "Age of Tribulation" marked by economic, ecological, and geopolitical catastrophes. These convergences suggest a period of intense global upheaval and testing of faith.

Based on these convergences, Professor Jang offers a specific, albeit speculative, prediction for the next 10-20 years: a US retreat from Iran leading to an American civil war; European revolts against NATO involvement in Ukraine, resulting in pro-Russian sentiment and the collapse of Turkey; Putin unifying the Orthodox world and then forging alliances with the Islamic and Catholic worlds, potentially becoming a global unifier. However, the professor concludes with a crucial caveat: this grand unification under Putin is ultimately doomed to fail due to his human mortality. His death would trigger renewed civil conflict and an extended "Age of Tribulation," mirroring historical patterns like the post-Muhammad succession crises, suggesting a perpetually cyclical and catastrophic future for humanity.

99% of warfare you will not see.

esquetology drives geopolitics.

esquetologists are compelling because they are narratives that capture the human imagination. They answer three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going?

the formula that tells us who wins a game is mass times energy times coordination.

It's not what you know, it's who you know. to succeed to succeed in life you have to be able to work with others uh in an secretive unconscious co coordinated manner in order to achieve certain uh goals

according to game theory, it's the fanatics who matter. It's the fanatics who are the most energetic, who most committed to achieving um the esquetology.

whoever controls the seas controls the world because most trade was done through sea. But in a time of nation states, in a time of railways, um if one power can unite the Europe and Asian continents into the Eurasian continent, then that power can negate sea power and uh become the global hedgeimon.

the most powerful, wealthiest, and most secretive organization in human history for the past 2,000 years, they would would have a much greater impact on human history than the Jews.

I think there are some fanatics within the Catholic Church who want to initiate a second American civil war. because they believe that um this war will create the opportunity for the Catholic Church to control America and thus destroy all three of its major opponents, the Anglo-American Empire, the nation state and modernity uh itself.

the outlook for humanity is not that great.