to Yekke
open up a sefer Zecharia Hanavi & do your research. see for yourself a complete list of events that will occur in the pre-Mashiach days & you will see that most of them are occurring right now. Zachariya was not written 50 years ago actually it was written over 2000 years ago by a navi of Hashem.
many other shocking messages are brought up throughout navi. but would be too shocking of a wake-up call from Hashem to write it here in the coffeeroom. we are not living on the same level as 500 or 2000 years ago