The NSR (Northern Sea Route) should not and need not be a Russian sea lane, and won't be if it has North Pacific and Nordic infrastructure.
The United States has taken steps to reshape the world, and those steps have borne fruit, isolating China and Russia.
The Soviet Union is gone, but its program of subversion never ceased to operate and continues today, under new Russian Federal managment.
Iran has survived this long because Russia and China are allied with it and using it as their proxy against the United States.
A secular and democratic Iran would bring stability to the Middle East and change the geopolitical game with Europe, China and Russia.
America must win in Iran, and give no quarter until victory is assured, because the renewed Cold War with Russia and China demands this.
Russia sold its war against Ukraine through Telegram and the channels it created. Now it is dismantling the Telegram ecosystem.
The spate of climate lawsuits in America especially benefits no one more than Russia and China, by diminishing American power.
The U.S. might not need to annex Greenland outright in order to guarantee its security against Russian or Chinese action.
The capture of Nicolás Maduro is a reaffirmation of U.S. hegemony in Latin America, which is, after all, part of the Western Hemisphere.