I don't know if he's serious about regime change in iran. He seems to negotiate from a raft of threats and lies. Hopefully it's all for show but if the war does go down my guess for approval ratings is over 60%. Not quite Bush I or ii numbers due to decline in news consumption.

It was perceived that he was losing the war and lying to the public about the successes that they claimed to have achieved.

But winning wars, even unjust ones, always gets the president brownie points in the eyes of the public and corporations

This might sound insane but every single wartime president has gotten a huge boost to their approval ratings due to media networks circulating pure propaganda nonstop. Even NPR will start doing positive coverage.

They have a chaplain who goes on open mic before each meeting of the house

This is the usa

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/justices-side-with-high-school-football-coach-who-prayed-on-the-field-with-students/

They ruled that school officials can openly pray on school grounds and encourage students to pray.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/court-upholds-rule-house-open-each-day-it-session-prayer

And they openly pray in legislative houses

They've recently established in the Supreme Court that pray ins are kosher

Up until now the Ukrainian military conferred with the USA as to what targets to strike. The us provided a great deal of intelligence.