The difference this time is Germany, Italy and Japan are not in a coalition against the allies. That leaves no large coalition that could fight against each other.
The new version could be North Korea, China, and Russia, all three are aggressive in their arms expansion and territory, China in the West Philippine Sea, Russia in Ukraine, and North Korea in South Korea. War is different now compared to the past; the weapons are ten times more powerful.
OP has a good comparison, but leaders now have history to look back on, to change the course of history.
But they have good reason to be aggressive. The West has broken any armament treaty made with them in the past. The West, which is owned by the banking system, MUST do this. Why? Because the banking system is based on contracts (fiat). There's nothing substantial really there.
Now, if the West had told the world that using the US banking system was screwing the world by their creations of new money, would the world have not broken away from them long ago? So, the West banking system(s) MUST prevail if they want to remain in existence.
