Not sure I would want to be on the maiden voyage of the CVN 47, USS Kaptin Kaos (ships motto, "We break it, you fix it...")when it does it's first visit outside of CONUS... Iran plays a long game, Kaos can't keep it together to the end of his sentence.
NATO's problems like the UN are enshrined in their charter, and what has passed as convention since inception. It is a similar issue that arises in the US with the constitution, that in all cases there was an assumption that rational adults would be involved in making decisions, and that is no longer the case, and arguably since the establishment of the UNSC, never was the case. NATO has a cancer in its midst before Kaos returned to the picture, but at least there is some clarity (Klarity?) on the issue of the future of North Atlantic defence alliances. We are watching a realignment of alliances in real time, one flurry of tweets at a time. It be interesting times.
This is a military aviation centric matter. The US makes extraordinary systems, the F-22 is cool, the B21A is a good extension of the B2... But the battle space has altered, and while the old guard threats exist, the emerging threats are far more problematic. Used to be the good old days that a strike package to go 300nm from Naked Phannie to downtown would take 60 aircraft, multiples of that number of crew, and deposit holes in the ground over a wide spread area.... today, the same capability is achieved with a measure of accuracy over 3 times the distance, by some bunch of guys sitting in caves and ditches... at a low low cost all up of less than the one aircraft out of the strike package that would usually be lost by accident, not by E.A., counter drone is now a serious need, drones being available on TEMU or ALIBABA.
WRT threats to the Lower 48, It was a couple of years back that the Ukranians displayed the problem of a drive by fruiting by dropping pineapples onto Vlad's world class airforce, on their home base. it takes little further ingenuity, and only some residual resentment to go and do the same number from some tramp steamer running in international waters, with a few dozen 40' containers on the upper deck. The Ukrainians showed that the delivery vehicle didn't even need to be part of the nefarious plot, pretty sure the driver of the Kerch bridge truck still has a look of surprise on his face... as do the guys who suddenly saw a flock of FPVs emerging from the top of their cargo. A bit of politeness with neighbours might be a sound strategy.
As to Iran being a mortal enemy of any specific country, that isn't quite what their instruction manual says, it is worth a read. It does get twisted, as does that for the rest of the religions around the world, seems we are all as bad as each other in that regard, call it observer bias. 1953 set off the Iranians towards 1979, and that gets us to where they are now. Seems we are not fast learners on either side.
Benny might consider that he still winning with his manipulation of a special needs subject, I suspect that is not the case, being a 1-man wrecking ball does not equate to long term security, it assures that there will be greater resentment than there was before, and threats increase.
Can't wait to hear the pearls of wisdom that usher forth at 9PM EST today from the WH...