> Aren't everyone just waiting for WW3 to end now?

No. Because it hasn't started.

> Right now doesn't seem like the time to make politically significant changes

If a world war had started, right now would be the only time. Historically speaking, the cultures that waited to enact change because of threat of conquest tended to get hit first, hardest and with the longest-lasting effects. (Granted, if someone's getting fucked in WWIII, it's going to be Europe and everything around China and Russia.)