I posted about this yesterday, we have an election next year, 2024 is only a few days away and Biden is struggling in the polls, it would a perfect justification to get into a full-scale war with Iran if a US Navy ship was severely damaged or sunk taking a large number of Americans with it.
You can never underestimate what desperate things the Democrats combined with the Military Industrial Complex will resort to in order to stay in power.
I think the other one would be allowing the Russkies to march into Kiev.
Then they can tee off on the Republicans for “abandoning” Ukraine.