‘Chinese Nostradamus’ makes worrying prediction that will 'forever change the global order'

A man dubbed the 'Chinese Nostradamus' made a series of successful predictions, and his next one in the sequence sounds pretty worrying for some parts of the world.

The actual Nostradamus is an old, dead French dude who wrote down a lot of vague predictions which are very much open to interpretation, which is how he's managed to stay relevant centuries after he snuffed it.

The prediction business can be a lucrative one to get into, if you know what's going to happen then you can get a lot of clout for calling it correctly.

Chinese-Canadian teacher Xueqin Jiang runs the YouTube channel Predictive History which analyses global events and tries to work out where things will go next.

He's gained some traction after making a series of predictions that have come true, starting with Donald Trump making it back into the White House in 2024.

He successfully predicted that Donald Trump would be back in the White House (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

That did end up happening, which brings us onto step two of his suggested sequence of events where he suggested a second Trump presidency would result in a 'very strong likelihood that the United States will go to war with Iran'.

That also happened. Twice.

So what does the predicting man think is going to be the outcome of that war? According to him the US 'will lose this war' and their defeat will 'forever change the global order'.

It's not really going great for the Americans at the moment, they've bombed Iran a lot and killed their supreme leader who has been replaced by his son, who hasn't been seen for ages so may well be dead himself.

But the Iranians have been able to close the economically significant Strait of Hormuz which has screwed the global economy, driven up fuel prices and made pretty much everything more expensive.

Meanwhile, the US doesn't appear to have achieved its war aims, with Trump saying he called off a big attack for peace talks as he says a deal is 'imminent', something the Iranians have denied.

He also predicted the US war with Iran, and says it's not a conflict the Americans can win (U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Jiang reckons that there's 'no way the US can win this war' since any attempt to occupy Iranian territory would be a nightmare, and he sees some historical parallels with the Ancient Greeks.

He suggested this was like Athens invading Sicily between 415 and 413 BC in an attempt to capture the island that the Italian mainland 'boot' looks like it's kicking.

That didn't go so well for them and Jiang thinks American intervention in Iran is likely to end up the same way.

He said: "Given my analysis of how the war is progressing, I think that Iran has many more advantages over the United States.

"The reality is, right now, it's a war of attrition between the United States and Iran, and Iranians have been preparing 20 years for this conflict."

So if you're a fan of the global order where the US is top dog this would sound like bad news for you, and since he says Iran is 'waging war against the entire global economy' this conflict isn't going well for anyone.