The herbal section of the Voynich Manuscript is the historical part.

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To be precise: the VMS does not predict the future, it sees the future. Those who compiled the manuscript knew what they were encoding. This is not a matter of forecasting, but of access to a "information cloud."

Ok, suppose there is such thing as the information cloud and the creators of the manuscripts had access. Even under this bold if not outright crazy assumption, the sequence of topics you found in the images makes little sense.

Why does the manuscript focus so much on recent events from our time specifically?

For example, the COVID pandemic while tragic for many had relatively mild global impact compared to the flu of 1918-20, let alone the Plague and many other past pandemics, which are not mentioned in your list. Breakup of Yugoslavia, while very consequential for those living in the Balkans, is probably of much lower impact than the Fall of Rome, which again is not in the list. About 40% of the entries on your list fall between 1900 and 2026. I would expect the medieval researchers of the information cloud to be more focused on their immediate future. For example the discovery of the Americas would greatly affect the life in Europe starting less than 100 years after the manuscript was probably crafted, but there is only a cursory mention of "Wars with the Indians in North America".