Who is sick of the incompetence of this Iran situation - the market

Mental Exercise:

If it never happened, would the state of the world be better?
Yes.

If Iran had nuclear weapons — which they never did — would the world in May 2026 actually be worse or better?

And do people truly believe it would automatically lead to nuclear Armageddon?
Probably not.

Much of the argument that “Iran can never have nukes” seems highly conditional and selectively framed, especially considering they possessed long-range missile capabilities for years and did not fully deploy them unless provoked or cornered within a broader geopolitical conflict.

At the same time, China is allowed extraordinary economic and strategic latitude despite accusations and controversies that critics describe as systemic or predatory — yet it remains deeply integrated into the global order and treated as an indispensable partner.

So the contradiction becomes difficult to ignore:

Why is Iran consistently framed as the “final boss” of global instability, while other powers operating at much larger scale are normalized through trade, finance, and strategic dependency?