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Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch?

Professor Jiang Xueqin Analysis - July 18, 2025

Executive Summary​

Professor Jiang Xueqin presents a provocative hypothesis that Putin sees himself as the "second coming of Stalin" and is orchestrating a civilizational war between Orthodox Christianity and Western materialism. The analysis examines why American policies in Ukraine have been systematically self-defeating and proposes three testable predictions based on Orthodox eschatological prophecy.

Key Thesis: American Self-Defeating Strategy​

The Paradox​

"This war in Ukraine is very strange because American strategy, American policy, American tactics, they've all been self-defeating... It's almost as though Putin has spies implanted within the Western Imperial apparatus. It's very very strange."

Three Examples of Self-Defeating Policies​

1. Ukrainian Military Strategy

  • Counterfactual: Without American intervention, Ukraine would have initially lost territory but ultimately won through guerrilla tactics as Russia became overextended
  • Reality: By fighting for every inch, Ukraine played to Russia's strength in defensive artillery warfare

"By constantly being on the offensive, by fighting for every inch of territory, the Ukrainian military trained the Russian military on how to be a modern military capable of fighting a modern military campaign, specifically using drone warfare."

2. Sanctions Against Russian Oligarchs

  • Counterfactual: Without sanctions, business elites would have opposed Putin internally
  • Reality: Sanctions unified Russian elites around Putin

"70 of the 200 top business people in Russia were hit with sanctions. Then what that did ultimately was unify the business elite around Putin. They didn't have an option there."

3. Nord Stream Pipeline Destruction

  • Counterfactual: Germans would have naturally blamed Putin for economic hardship
  • Reality: Germans now blame Americans for their suffering

"By blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, the German people now all know that they're suffering the economic misery. It's all because of the Americans... there's only one force that can possibly defeat the Anglo-American Empire and that's an alliance between Germany and Russia."

The Putin Origin Theory​

Biographical Foundation​

"Putin told the New York Times in interview that his grandfather Spiridon Putin was the personal cook to both Vladimir Lenin as well as Joseph Stalin."

"His mother was a devout Christian who secretly baptized him and even today he wears the baptismal cross to show his devotion to his mother and to his faith and to his country."

The Grandfather's Influence​

"Spiridon Putin would tell his grandson Vladimir Putin [these ideas]. Spiridon Putin would also introduce Putin to this elite nexus of power within the Orthodox church and within the Soviet hierarchy... ultimately Spiridon Putin would come to believe that his grandson... it is possible that he could be the second coming of Stalin."

Stalin as Orthodox Messiah​

"Stalin was able to win this war because of his rapprochement with the Orthodox Church... for the Orthodox Church, this really was a holy war. This was a war between the third Rome, which is Moscow... and the antichrist which was Nazi Germany."

"The Orthodox church then had to see Stalin as messiah, as the chosen one who would lead them to ultimate victory against the Nazis, who would redeem Russian civilization from the evil communism and who would restore the Byzantine Empire."

The Orthodox Prophecy Strategy​

The Constantinople Prophecy​

"Russia and Turkey are destined to go to war against each other... Russia will destroy Turkey in a matter of days because remember Russia is a nuclear superpower and then Russia will hand Turkey Constantinople back to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire."

"When I first encountered this prophecy, I thought it was very strange because it didn't really sound like a prophecy. It sounded more like a plan."

The Odessa Trap​

"NATO will make its last stand in Odessa... once the Russians have been able to encircle Odessa, it becomes a death trap for NATO. NATO will send in a lot of soldiers and they're all just going to die there and this is going to cause a lot of popular resentment back in France, in Britain, in Poland and this will probably cause a civil war in these nations."

Civilizational War Framework​

Orthodox vs. Western Worldview​

"For Orthodox Christians, they really see Western civilization as a manifestation of the Antichrist. Because Western civilization, the three pillars of Western civilization are capitalism, science, and liberalism."

"For Orthodox Christians, this is a war of civilization, a struggle of civilizations. And only one can survive. Only the western viewpoint can survive or the Orthodox viewpoint can survive."

The Mystical Advantage​

"The problem with western civilization is it denies existence of God. It denies the existence of this collective unconscious because of its embrace of materialism... But because the Orthodox tradition, it's much more mystical... Then there are certain mystics within the Orthodox tradition who are capable of communicating with this collective unconscious."

"If you're capable of communicating with this collective unconscious, then you're also capable of influencing in a certain way that allows you to achieve outcomes that you desire."

The Ubermensch Theory​

Putin as World Historical Figure​

"Frederick Hegel would call Putin the world historical figure and Frederick Nietzsche would call Putin the ubermensch, the superman, the overman, the man who was able to step outside of history to control history and achieve his ambitions and by doing so forever change the course of human history."

The Secret Network Hypothesis​

"During the time of Stalin, a secret nexus of power between the Orthodox Church and the KGB came into being and they were determined to achieve the third Rome prophecy and restore the Byzantine empire. They thought that Stalin could help them achieve this. But after his death, they had to await the second coming of Stalin."

Three Testable Predictions​

1. The Odessa Endgame​

"The war in Ukraine will shift to Odessa. That's where the final battle between NATO and Russia will take place. Turkey will be brought into this war."

2. Sino-Russian Split​

"There'll be a falling out between China and Russia. Because if this hypothesis is correct and Russia is fighting a war for civilization, for the soul of humanity... the true enemy is western civilization, but it's also China because China is even more of a godless, valueless, materialistic society than Western civilization."

3. Defense of Iran​

"Russia will defend Iran. It cannot afford for Iran to fall... because in this cosmology, in this war between Russian civilization and Western civilization, Iran is an important ally for Russian civilization because they're both fighting to bring God back to humanity."

Methodology and Limitations​

Intellectual Honesty​

"I'll be very honest with you, these three questions are unanswerable. I don't know the answers to any of these three questions. And quite honestly, we'll never know because there's not enough information to work with."

"What I'm going to do today is I'm going to present a hypothesis. And there's going to be a lot of problems with this hypothesis. But the good thing is that with any hypothesis, there is embedded in it a prediction model."

Learning Process​

"This is a learning process and we're both trying to develop theories and hypotheses and analytical models to better understand the world... there are a lot of things in which I'm going to be wrong. But what's really important is there are predictions in place and if these predictions happen then that's good reason to think that the analytical model I'm proposing is correct."

Analysis Notes​

This analysis presents Putin not merely as a geopolitical actor but as a messianic figure operating within an Orthodox Christian eschatological framework. The hypothesis suggests that American policy failures aren't coincidental but systematically manipulated by forces that understand both material and spiritual dimensions of power.

The three predictions provide a framework for testing whether this civilizational conflict theory has predictive power, moving beyond speculation toward falsifiable claims about future geopolitical developments.

Source: Predictive History YouTube Channel - Geo-Strategy Update #6 Date: July 18, 2025 Analyst: Professor Jiang Xueqin