Do it and nothing of real value to humanity will be lost.
Except of course the monetary value of the AI chips. and those are owned by the 1%, so taking away some of their control, Iran will actually do Democracy of the world a favor.

And the more ICE agents the bigger the chance it will work.

That does not sound consistent with EU regulation, that should guarantee free movement within EU.

The real problem is also that China will probably become even more powerful than USA, and being so powerful feeds arrogance.
I’m just hoping China will see how arrogance is now destroying USA’s global dominance because they are alienating their allies.

I am not aware of the fishing and plastic things you mention, but we’ve had lots of fishing issues here in Europe too. Even between countries that are fiends.

Luckily in EU we all want independence from USA now, and we are working together to achieve it, and we even have allies outside EU, who are eager to cooperate with on the same thing. Canada and Japan have both joined the EU SAFE program, and Starmer of UK has pledged tighter cooperation with EU on security too.

I admit I’m beginning to tend more towards China, because they are way more trustworthy and respect national sovereignty more.
But China does have some pretty serious issues too. But at least China has been moving in the right direction for most of the past ½ century, while USA has been slipping regularly since Carter lost to Reagan, and Reagan became president in 1981, just short of half a century ago.
Even Obama who was somewhat a bright spot, had serious problems keeping within international law, with illegal intelligence even against allies, and illegal drone attacks into 3 countries, costing about 70,000 civilian lives.

Same here, but the preference used to be towards USA, that is no longer the case, because we can’t trust USA anymore. China is far from perfect, but at least they are somewhat trustworthy, and have declared that they respect international law, which USA has abandoned completely. Threatening wars against several allies, started an illegal war against Iran and committed several war crimes, and blocked Cuba from getting essential energy supplies to maintain their society, which is causing even hospitals to lack power.
The list of atrocities for the past year by USA is long, and the American system and population have failed completely in preventing these things from happening. In that light China seems like the clearly lesser evil to most of the rest of the world.

Edges past

China has a 5 point lead in approval, and 11 point less disapproval than USA!
I think that’s a bit more than edging past. 5% is statistically more than significant, 11 point higher disapproval for USA is catastrophic for their desire to control global affairs.
It’s also notable that USA has declined the most among allies, meaning USA basically doesn’t have any allies that feel comfortable about it anymore. All allies are reluctant allies at best, apart from Israel that decidedly is exploiting USA. The very thing Trump and Vance has been so pissed about other allies doing even though they actually didn’t, but actually contributed to US global dominance, that is now coming to an abrupt end.

It’s not the world that is splitting between USA and China, but the world that is moving away from USA, and accept China more.

The Iranian people harbour no enmity towards other nations

Obviously it’s not entirely true, but it’s only to the degree that they sabotage the livelihood of Iranians, which USA has been doing pretty consistently since the 50’s. AFAIK Iran hasn’t done much more than defend the rights to their own country.
The Hostage situation after the Shah was removed was a civilian attack on the embassy, and the reaction by USA punishing a whole country for that for more than half a century is even more despicable than when USA replaced a democracy in Iran with a dictator.

Yes we ended up with a disgusting patriarchy in Iran, but that is actually mainly the fault of USA for instating a dictator just to make money on the Iranian oil!!!

Most of what the Iranian president states is true, and way more trustworthy than anything we hear from the White House.

Thousands of Iranian drones have yet to be destroyed

They could be producing thousands per day, so that statement is absolutely worthless.

It is very interesting to watch the demise of USA as the dominating global power in real time.
I wonder how this will end for Israel too. With EU and Canada already pulling support for Israel, and USA exhausting their military resources on Iran, how will that influence the position of Israel in the middle east?

Maybe Israel will be dissolved completely, and if they are, it is 100% their own doing.

One replicator would be nice. 👍

If every Ukrainian housewife can really produce drones, then every Ukrainian housewife could also be the CEO of Rheinmetall

Good comeback. 🤣

True, but that belief is seriously damaged now, with how badly the war with Iran is going.
Maybe some Americans still believe it, but the rest of the world does not.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that China is relatively less dependent on oil than USA.
Apart from the countries hardest hit, like Philippines and Thailand that already need to ration it, I think USA may be among the hardest hit rich/industrialized countries. Because USA has failed to modernize their energy infrastructure as much as China and EU.

That’s OK bro. 😋

Yes we need to improve democracy, and limit the wealth and power of the 1%.

Yes obviously not wanting super-capitalism or authoritarianism means I want oligarchs?
That makes a lot of sense if you don’t think about it.

I just hope the American super-capitalist model will be abandoned together with the authoritarian model of Russia.
And I actually see a path to that effect, question is if we (western democracies) will take it.

Absolutely 100%, even water is toxic. If you drink 4 liters of it in a short span of time, you will die.

albuterol inhalers use saline solution as a carrier.

That sounds weird, that is in principle just salt water, and a vapor that is way harder to control. But just because an alternative exist, doesn’t mean other options are bad.