Who knows what will come in the years ahead from terrorism, global warming, conflict over natural resources, proliferation of WMD, et al.? It's not hard to imagine truly horrific things happening. I don't think it's likely, but perhaps one day the major powers might even respond to religion-related terrorism by joining together to restrain or control religion under the banner of the U.N.
Such events certainly could trigger a response from the fears/phobias that ex-JWs may carry around with them due to years of WT indoctrination -- however much repressed these are at most times. How would you feel if such things happened? Would you start to wonder if maybe the JW org. was right after all? Might you succumb to a compulsion to seek the protection of the "Mother" organization?
If so, then as time passed and further JW "prophecies" failed to be fulfilled, how would you feel? Would you again leave the organization?
Seems to me that since things are looking a little uncertain right now future-wise for the West, it would be good to be considering such matters.