COVID-19 and the Third World War

I've been a student of history all my life and I've been a teacher of history as well. Does anyone else see the parallel with what's happening now and the run-up to the Second World War? I certainly do, we have the War on Terror, which is a form of colonial expansion rather like The Great Game between the British and Russian empires. Heck, this war involves Afghanistan just as it did during The Great Game of the nineteenth century.

Then we have the EU pushing its weight around, rather like Italy's unification under Garibaldi and Germany under Bismarck, then later Spain under Franco. Europe has emerged as a super state since the 1990's. Then we have 9/11, which is WWI, and then the GFC which equates to the stock market crash of 1929. This has been followed by the Great Stagnation involving quantitative easing, another version of the Great Depression, except this time it is worse as we now have a global pandemic to conclude things, which is a bit out of sequence, it has come at the end of the Great Stagnation instead of the end of 9/11. For those not aware, the Spanish flu came at the end of First World War not at the outbreak of the Second.

Time scales are a bit off, but what's a decade or two when talking evolutionary scale - hmm? If this is obvious to me, it must be obvious to others, so who is manipulating events? The Third World War cannot be far away.