Grr! What makes me so jealous about Asia is the technology and transportation . It's light years beyond what we have here in the USA. I could be romancing someone in Chicago and be home in Minneapolis in 45 minutes. Don't worry about the train though, they won't ever stop running unless teleportation is invented and works perfectly.
WWIII? I don't think it would happen in our lifetime. WWIII to me is the race to space. Earth can only be around for so long before the sun consumes it. By then, hopefully, we'd have mastered space travel and have found other habitable planets to live on for when the inevitable happens. It's too bad I wasn't born some 40,000 years into the future.