For me, it appears to have kicked off in February 2022(Water Tiger) with the push of a Fifth Column in many countries across the globe. Metaphorically took it to be like heads of a dragon.
Then the attack on Ukraine. Ukraine connected to Archangel Michael, and for me, wizardly, the constellation Ophiuchus. Opening a way to star aligned astrology through viewing world events.
The recent unconstitutional escalation by the magastate against Iran is making a spicy Holy War. Likely incompetence, perhaps intentionally, maybe possessed by falling demons of Christian pride, to position the American military for destruction.
As Liberty's mirror of Gorby, I've been mulling what could be the US's Swan Lake and thought maybe American Pie or We're Off the See the Wizard. But despite connection to the events of the OP, that specific metaphysical theory overlaps better with OP's other thread about music.
Getting back to the succession of events, even the fall of the US, is only part of WW3.