May 5, 2026

Europe is not being destroyed by Russia. It’s not being destroyed by Trump. Europe is destroying itself — and it’s doing it faster than any enemy ever could. In this lecture, Professor Jiang Xueqin uses game theory and structural history to break down something most analysts are completely missing. While the world watches the Iran war and the collapsing dollar, Europe is quietly making decisions that are hollowing out its own economy, betraying its own people, and locking itself into a strategic trap it may not escape from. German factories are closing. BASF is leaving Germany. Volkswagen is shutting plants for the first time in 87 years. Europe chose to cut off cheap Russian energy and replace it with American LNG at three to four times the price — and now its industrial base is dying from the inside. But the economy is only part of the story.

Europe is spending hundreds of billions on rearmament it cannot afford, fighting a war in Ukraine it cannot win, following American strategic direction that serves Washington — not European people. And the approval ratings of European leaders tell you everything. 15 percent. 20 percent. Leaders with near-zero public support making decisions that will shape the next 50 years. Professor Jiang explains exactly why this is happening, why European leaders cannot stop it even when they know it is wrong, and what structural history tells us about how this ends — using the same game theory framework that predicted Trump’s return and the Iran war before anyone else was talking about it. This is not mainstream analysis. This is not what you will hear on CNN or the BBC. This is the structural pattern that empires and their subordinates have repeated across 3,000 years of history — and Europe is following it almost perfectly right now. What you will learn in this video: → Why cutting Russian energy was economic suicide disguised as strategy → The real reason European leaders keep following America even as it harms them → What game theory says Europe should actually be doing right now → The historical pattern that tells us exactly how and when this breaks → Why the political earthquake coming to Europe is now inevitable If you understand this framework, nothing happening in global politics will surprise you again. Professor Jiang Xueqin teaches at Moonshot Academy in Beijing and runs the Predictive History channel — the channel that predicted Trump’s 2024 victory, the Iran war, and the collapse of the petrodollar system years before they happened.

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